Plasmapheresis is a process in which the liquid part of the blood, or plasma, is separated from the blood cells. Typically, the plasma is replaced with another solution such as saline or albumin, or ...

Plasma resistin and serum leptin were measured by ELISA (Phoenix Pharmaceuticals Inc., Belmont, CA; and Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Webster, TX, respectively). Serum insulin was measured by ...

Historically considerable attention has been focused on neonatal glucose metabolism because glucose is the major energy substrate for the neonate and because of the relatively high frequency of ...

Plasma exchange, also known as plasmapheresis, is a way to "clean" your blood. It works sort of like kidney dialysis. During the treatment, plasma -- the liquid part of your blood -- gets replaced ...

In a groundbreaking move, Bryan Johnson, a billionaire entrepreneur, has recently opted for a medical treatment known as Total Plasma Exchange (TPE). This procedure, which has been gaining traction in ...

Plasmapheresis is an uncommon treatment that can be used to manage something called myeloma kidney, a type of kidney failure that affects many people with multiple myeloma. It separates out plasma ...

This protein has largely been used as a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease, where an increase in p-tau217 blood levels is proposed to be driven by another process, namely the aggregation of ...

A new study reveals that replacing half of the blood plasma with a mixture of saline and albumin reverses signs of aging and rejuvenates muscle, brain and liver tissue in old mice. The research team ...