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Review
. 2010 Jun;8 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):s39-47.
doi: 10.2450/2010.007S.

Aging and death signalling in mature red cells: from basic science to transfusion practice

Marianna H Antonelou  1 , Anastasios G Kriebardis, Issidora S Papassideri
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Review

Aging and death signalling in mature red cells: from basic science to transfusion practice

Marianna H Antonelou et al. Blood Transfus. 2010 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: aging; apoptosis; death; proteome; red blood cell signalling; senescence.

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Figure 1
Conventional electron microscopy of RBCs and vesicles released after prolonged storage (35 days) in CPD-A. (A) Membrane blebbing in a RBC that has undergone echinocytic (arrows) transformation. (B) Ultrastructural appearance of a vesicle preparation. Insert: the sediment of the vesicles (v) collected at the final step of the isolation protocol (bars, 0.5 μm).
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