Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Avanthi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vizianagaram, India
Review Article
A Review on Artificial Blood
Author(s): Mercy Paul*
Artificial blood is a productive concept of transfusion medicine where explicitly defined compounds play the role of
transport and delivery of oxygen in the body to supplement this function of allogenic human blood transfusion.
Several molecules are formed over a long period of time to accomplish this goal and continuous refinements are
consistently made in the mission of the ideal blood substitute. Currently, accessible innovation makes counterfeit
blood from hemoglobin acquired from outdated human/bovine blood (Hemoglobin Based Oxygen Carriers; HBOC)
or using Perfluorocarbons (PFC). These manufactured/synthetic blood substitutes are beneficial that they don't need
similar testing, are free from blood borne diseases, have prolonged span of shelf life and do not need refrigeration.
Artificial blood is projected to altogether affect the improvement of clinical cons.. View more»