Nitric oxide (NO) has an important role in the hemodynamic changes found during healthy pregnancy. 1 Increased heart rate, plasma volume and cardiac output over the course of a normal pregnancy are ...

A haptoglobin test measures the amount of haptoglobin in your blood. Haptoglobin is a protein produced by your liver. It binds with hemoglobin, which is a protein found in red blood cells. Red blood ...

Use of angiopoietin-1 expression in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck to predict disease-free survival. Background: The aim of this study was to determine whether cellular expression of ...

In patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), the amount of haptoglobin in serum correlated with markers of systemic inflammation, decreased after treatment, and helped predict who would ...

Alzheimer’s disease risk associated with the APOE gene just got even more complicated. In a bioRxiv preprint uploaded September 23, researchers led by William Bush, Case Western Reserve University, ...

Patients who survive a cerebral hemorrhage may suffer delayed severe brain damage caused by free hemoglobin, which comes from red blood cells and damages neurons. Researchers at the University of ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is a multifactorial disease of complex etiology characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. In addition to genetic ...

The Hp subtypes of 29 Finnish families with 74 children and 42 healthy blood donors of haptoglobin type 1-1 were investigated. Frequencies of 0.140 for the Hp¹F and 0.222 for the Hp¹s genes were ...

Bei Haptoglobin (Hp) handelt es sich um ein Transport- und Akute-Phase-Protein (Eiweiß), das im Blutplasma vorkommt. Es zählt zur Gruppe der Alpha-2-Globuline. Haptoglobin erfüllt die Aufgabe, ...

Haptoglobin (Hp) is a glycoprotein and is produced as an acute phase plasma component and synthesized in many different tissues. A new biosensing platform has been fabricated for the determination of ...