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Blood Substitutes

"Blood Substitutes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Substances that are used in place of blood, for example, as an alternative to BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS after blood loss to restore BLOOD VOLUME and oxygen-carrying capacity to the blood circulation, or to perfuse isolated organs.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Blood Substitutes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Blood Substitutes" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.