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Blood is still the best thing possible to have in our veins, according to Woody Allen, and that is certainly the case when the blood is our own. We are not so confident, however, about other people's blood, the transfusion of which can cause unexpected, unexplained, and occasionally lethal complications. It is little wonder, then, that there are such high hopes for the development of safe alternatives to blood.

The term "blood substitute" is a misnomer. So-called blood substitutes replace just one or possibly two functions of transfused blood — oxygen delivery and volume expansion — and thus are more . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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