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Artificial blood and blood substitutes

1. Erik Stokstad 2002 Not blood sample. Science 295:1003 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/295/5557/1003.pdf Comments on artificial blood and blood substitutes. 2. Jerry E Squires 2002 Artificial blood. Science 295:1002-5. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/295/5557/1002.pdf Article on artificial blood. 3. http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3198.htm Article on blood substitutes. 4. Natason et al. 2008 Cell-free hemoglobin-based blood substitutes and risk of myocardial infarction and death. Journal of the American Medical Association. 229(19):2304-12. A survey of current use of blood substitutes and their results. 5. SJ Lu et al 2008 Biological properties and enucleation of red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells. Blood. Prepublished online Aug 19, 2008. A detailed article about rbc production. This journal is online in the NUS Library website. It can be found in journal website under First Edition.

Blood and drug doping in sports

1. http://illumin.usc.edu/article.php?articleID=124 Doping in sports: blood oxygenation enhancement 2. http://www.texarkanacollege.edu/~mstorey/beckham.html Blood doping: is it really worth it? 3. http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/dopage/dopage2.html Doping and sports. Rather long article, historical and present day, includes drugs etc. 4. http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/casestudies/blood.mhtml Blood doping case study. Area where you can do some exploration on your own.

Exercise and iron, bleeding

1. Newhouse IJ & Clement DB 1988 Iron status in athletes. Sports Medicine 5:337-352. 2. Suedekum NA & Dimeff RJ 2005 Iron and the athlete. Current Sports Medicine Reports 4:199202.

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3. Gambrell RC & Blount BW 1996 Exercise-induced hematuria. American Family Physician 53(3):905-911.

Anemia and Polycythemia

1. McGraw-Hills Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Chapter 58. Anemia and Polycythemia. Access through NUS Library online book. A very detailed chapter, too much for LSM3212 but maybe of interest to some of you.

Hemostasis and bleeding

1. http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2002_general/Esp/default.htm Hemostasis under Transport/Blood/. Flash animation giving the 3 main players in hemostasis OR http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/esp/2002_general/Esp/folder_structure/tr/m1/s7/trm1s7_3.htm 2. http://www.hemophilia.org/NHFWeb/MainPgs/MainNHF.aspx?menuid=0&contentid=1 National Hemophilia Foundation on Bleeding Disorders and Clotting Disorders 3. Mannucci PM & Levi M 2007 Prevention and treatment of major blood loss. New England J Medicine 356(22): 2301-11. 4. McGraw-Hills Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Chapter 59. Bleeding and Thrombosis. Access through NUS Library online book. A very detailed chapter, too much for LSM3212 but maybe of interest to some of you. 5. Furie, B & B Furie 2008 Mechanisms of thrombus formation. New England J Medicine 359: 938-49. 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin Various aspects of the oral anticoagulant, a coumarin drug. 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin Various aspects of aspirin, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) which also has anitplatelet effect, and is used in long-term, low doses to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and blood clot formation in people at high risk for developing blood clots. 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis DVT, also known as an economy class seating problem, where clots can form in the leg veins. This can cause a major problem for people with clotting problems.

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