Normal Hemoglobins

Abnormal Hemoglobin Normal Residue and Position Substitution... 

Tryptic digest of bovine hemoglobin (4 pM) cytochrome c (0.8 pM) Human hemoglobin (normal and sickle cell, 0.24 pM) Mixed off-chip/on-chip tryptic digestion Nil 807... 

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Robinetin (7) Hemoglobin Normal ( N) and ESIPT ( T) fluorescence decrease upon binding N and T bands overlap to give a broad peak. 54... 

Arsenic is bound in serum to protein (O]-globulin) and in erythrocytes to the globin part of hemoglobin. Normally the ratio of erythrocyte to plasma arsenic level is 3 1. Arsenic leaves the intravascular space within 24 hr. The blood-brain barrier is hardly penetrated by inorganic forms. Arsenic is stored first in liver (which contains proteins with SH groups), kidney, spleen, and lung [8,9,12,19,39]. 

A 45-year-old man was injured by an exploding bomb and, apart from burns and various lesions, had a peak of plasma concentration of methemoglobin of 42%, because of extensive transcutaneous absorption of glyceryl trinitrate from non-combusted particles attached to his skin. He was given methylthioninium chloride (methylene blue) serially over 6 days and the hemoglobin normalized. 

One of the bile pigments which results from the breakdown of hemoglobin. Normally, it is excreted into the intestine with the bile. However, blockage of the biliary tract leads to accumulation of bile in the liver and blood. The buildup of pigment often imparts a yellow color to the skin (a condition called jaundice). Newborn babies are particularly prone to brain damage by elevated blood levels of bilirubin. 

Although red blood cells (erythrocytes) play only a minimal role in wound healing and blood-biomaterial interactions, the contact of red blood cells with the material can lead to hemolysis. Hemolysis is the breakage of the erythrocyte s membrane with the release of intracellular hemoglobin. Normally, red blood cells live for 110-120 days. After that, they naturally break down and are removed from the circulation by the spleen. Some diseases and medical devices cause red blood cells to break too soon requiring the bone marrow to accelerate the regeneration of red blood cells (erythropoesis). Medical devices for hemodialysis, heart-lung-bypass machines or mechanical heart valves induce more hemolysis than smaller implants like stents or catheters [201]. 

Hemoglobin (depicted in blue and green) is the oxygen-carrying protein in blood. Hemoglobin normally binds oxygen, but it can also bind carbon monoxide molecules (the linked red and black spheres). 

CO as an air pollutant comes chiefly from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels in automobile engines. CO is an inhalation poison because CO molecules bond irreversibly to Fe atoms in hemoglobin in blood and displace the O2 molecules that the hemoglobin normally carries, as illustrated in Figure 21-29. 

D. Perahia and L. Mouawad. Computation of low-frequency normal modes in macromolecules Improvements to the method of diagonalization in a mixed basis and application to hemoglobin. Comput. Chem., 19 241-246, 1995. 

Hemoglobin is a tetramer built up of two copies each of two different polypeptide chains, a- and (5-globin chains in normal adults. Each of the four chains has the globin fold with a heme pocket. Residue 6 in the p chain is on the surface of a helix A, and it is also on the surface of the tetrameric molecule (Figure 3.13). 

Hematological Effects. Normal hemoglobin, hematocrit, white blood cell count, and differential... 

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