[New artificial blood: sensation without any sensation (comments to the article in the journal New Scientist of 13 March, 2004)].
In the article of Sylvia P. Westphal "New artificial blood shows promise" the sensational, at first sight, contention is adduced that numerous researchers engaged in the development of artificial blood substituents have many years followed the false pathway and did not understand the mechanisms of action of gas-transporting blood substituents, and now this understanding is available. In the paper being commented, the author gives three criteria that gas-transporting blood substituents must meet. The statement that the developers of gas-transporting blood substituents were unaware of these criteria is, in our opinion, questionable. We have known and have taken them into account development of the Russian gas-transporting blood substituent perftoran.
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D001802:Blood Substitutes; D005740:Gases / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans
D001802:Blood Substitutes; D005740:Gases