Nesim Akin, Atakan Turgutkaya, Sare İlknur Yavaşoğlu, Esra Örenlili Yaylagül, Celal Ülger, Ali Zahit Bolaman & Irfan Yavasoglu·International Blood Research & Reviews·2021
Introduction: FMS-Like Tyrosine Kinase Class 3 (FLT3) mutations harbor poor prognosis, high relapse, and decreased overall survival in acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). This mutation is also known to be demonstrated in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), chronic myelomonocytic leuke...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v13i130163
Akwo Mekalo Nya-Nweme, Jude Eteneneng Enoh, Benjamin Thumamo Pokam, Boris Tangi Fominyam & Jules Clement Assob·International Blood Research & Reviews·2021
Background and Objective: Helicobacter pylori (HP) is a very common human infection worldwide, colonizing the stomach of 50% of the world’s population. H. pylori play a major role in the development of iron deficiency, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. H. pylori...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v13i130162
Victor Tuanwii Ideede, Jonathan Nyebuchi, Albert Lesere Nwibani, Friday Ogidigba, Felix Eedee Konne & Fyneface Chikadibia Amadi·International Blood Research & Reviews·2021
Haemoglobin genotypes have been known to be linked with groups of diseases such as diabetes. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of haemoglobin variants on glycemic indices (fasting blood glucose and glycated haemoglobin) in subjects in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. A total o...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v13i130161
Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause disease in mammals and birds. Covid-19 infection occurs due to an RNA virus which is single-stranded, called SARS-CoV-2; this virus is similar to SARS-CoV. This review throws light on the available laboratory techniques...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v13i130160
Place and Duration of Study: Sample: Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba, Abia State and Laboratory Department, JAROS Inspection Services Limited, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, between April 2018 and June 2018. Methodology: A total of 204 samples comprising of 123 auto-me...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430159
Rasika Setia, Mitu Dogra, Gokhula Prasath Thangavel, Ramesh Yadav, Amena Ebadur Rahman, Atul Bhasin, Rajesh Kumar Pande, Sandeep Nayar, R. K. Singal, Anil Vardani, Deepak Gargi Pande, R. N. Saini, Tribhuvan GulatI, Vivek Pal Singh, Sunny Kalra, Gagan Anand, Manish Garg, Santosh Ghai & N. M. Agarwal·International Blood Research & Reviews·2021
Background: COVID-19 pandemic continues threatening the world with no effective treatment to tackle the menace. Till date, there is conflicting evidence on efficacy of CP in reducing COVID-19 related mortality. The objective of this study was to see disease progression and 7, 14...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430158
Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells represent a novel immunotherapy that has shown remarkable success in the treatment of adult relapsed or refractory (R/R) B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, adult R/R mantle cell lymphoma, and R/R acute paediatric lymphoblastic leukaem...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430157
Statins are lipid-lowering agents. They also have immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, and anti-proliferative functions. In this context, they are demonstrated to have beneficial effects on mortality in several malignancies including esophageal, breast, lung, liv...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430156
COVID-19 is a virus of the species of the Family coronaviridae known as as SARS-COV-2. This virus is easily contracted and/transmitted from an infected person to another healthy individual and has continued to spread rapidly. The aim of this review is to identify laboratory metho...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i430155
Blood transfusion is oftentimes life-saving but associated with risks which ought to be disclosed by the health care provider as an ethical obligation and legal requirement. The practice of informed consent to transfusion medicine is quite new and few studies have comprehensively...
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Research Article10.9734/ibrr/2021/v12i330154