To reduce oxidative stress of patients with sickle cell anemia, the solicitation calls for harvesting hemoglobin-binding haptoglobin from the donated blood and intravenously injecting haptoglobin to the patient to capture and process free sickle cell hemoglobin in the blood. Polymorphic haptoglobins are to be extracted from the Cohen's fraction V or equivalent. Haptoglobin forms a complex with hemoglobin and the complex is recognized with CD-163 macrophages followed by metabolic decomposition in the liver and the components recycled. What is not certain, however, is if the patient is capable of synthesizing additional CD-163 scavenger bound macrophages to process and metabolize the additional sickle cell hemoglobin bound haptoglobin formed by haptoglobin injection. To circumvent this uncertainty, anti-haptoglobin antibodies will be attached to proprietary centrifugally retrievable high-density nano-particles to form rNA, and let it bind with haptoglobin (Hp) in the healthy human plasma to form rNHp. Second, the synthesized rNHp wil be injected to the patients to bind sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) to form the super-complex (rNHp-HbS), which will be retrieved with aphaeresis.

Project Start
2012-08-01
Project End
2013-01-31
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$148,235
Indirect Cost
Name
Nanoshell Company, LLC
Department
Type
DUNS #
555806004
City
Layton
State
UT
Country
United States
Zip Code
84040