Our Research Publications

Updated November 2023

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Low-dose decitabine promotes megakaryocyte maturation and platelet production in healthy controls and immune thrombocytopenia Zhou H, Hou Y, Liu X, Qiu J, Feng Q, Wang Y, Zhang X, Min Y, Shao L, Liu X, Li G, Li L, Yang L, Xu S, Ni H, Peng J, Hou M 2015 Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Plasma transfusion trials and tribulations Shih A, Arnold DM 2015 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
ResearchUnit: Novel discovery reveals new diagnostic markers and treatment targets for bleeding disorder Ni H 2015 Blood.ca website View Other Other
A clinical governance framework for blood services Williamson LM, Benjamin RJ, Devine DV, Katz LM, Pink J, for the Alliance of Blood Operators Medical Directors Group 2015 Vox Sang View Blood operators Other
A systematic review of preclinical studies on the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cell-derived microvesicles Akyurekli C, Le Y, Richardson RB, Fergusson D, Tay J, Allan DS 2015 Stem Cell Rev View Health care providers Clinical research
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of a Type 2 Blood Group A Tetrasaccharide and Development of High-throughput Assays Enables a Platform for Screening Blood Group Antigen-cleaving Enzymes Kwan DH, Ernst S, Kotzler MP, Withers SG 2015 Glycobiology View Researchers Basic research
Does Age of Blood Matter? It Depends Hebert PC, Tinmouth A 2015 Am J Respir Crit Care Med View Health care providers Other
Evaluation and Management of Proteinuria After Kidney Transplantation Tsampalieros A, Knoll GA 2015 Transplantation View Health care providers Clinical research
HbM methaemoglobinaemia as a rare case of early neonatal benign cyanosis Elboraee MS, Clarke G, Belletrutti MJ, Escoredo S 2015 BMJ Case Reports View Health care providers Clinical research
Nouvelle cuisine: platelets served with inflammation Kapur R, Zufferey A, Boilard E, Semple JW 2015 J Immunol View Researchers Basic research
Peanut and fish allergy due to platelet transfusion in a child Ching JC, Lau W, Hannach B, Upton JE 2015 CMAJ View Health care providers Clinical research
A Mother and Newborn with Brown Blood Estey MP, Clarke G, Sia W, Toor E, Higgins TN 2015 Clin Chem View Health care providers Clinical research
Bleeding complications in immune thrombocytopenia Arnold DM 2015 Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program View Health care providers Clinical research
Mesenchymal stromal cells from patients with acute myeloid leukemia have altered capacity to expand differentiated hematopoietic progenitors Chandran P, Le Y, Li Y, Sabloff M, Mehic J, Rosu-Myles M, Allan DS 2015 Leuk Res View Researchers Basic research
Platelets in hemostasis and thrombosis: Novel mechanisms of fibrinogen-independent platelet aggregation and fibronectin-mediated protein wave of hemostasis Hou Y, Carrim N, Wang Y, Gallant RC, Marshall A, Ni H 2015 J Biomed Res View Researchers Basic research
Subunit-directed click coupling via doubly cross-linked hemoglobin efficiently produces readily purified functional bis-tetrameric oxygen carriers Singh S, Dubinsky-Davidchik IS, Yang Y, Kluger R 2015 Org Biomol Chem View Researchers Basic research
[Study on the relationship of platelet specific-autoantibodies with therapeutic outcomes by dexamethasone in immune thrombocytopenia purpura] Chen Y, Ge J, Ruan M, Zhu L, Xie Y, Xia R, Ni H, Zeng Q 2015 Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi View Researchers Clinical research
Advances in umbilical cord blood stem cell expansion and clinical translation Pineault N, Abu-Khader A 2015 Exp Hematol View Researchers Other
Angiogenesis and bleeding disorders in FNAIT Yougbare I, Zdravic D, Ni H 2015 Oncotarget View Researchers Clinical research
Sialidase inhibition to increase platelet counts: A new treatment option for thrombocytopenia Jansen AJG, Peng J, Zhao H-G, Hou M, Ni H 2015 Am J Hematol View Health care providers Clinical research
Toward Efficient Enzymes for the Generation of Universal Blood through Structure-Guided Directed Evolution Kwan DH, Constantinescu I, Chapanian R, Higgins MA, Kotzler MP, Samain E, Boraston AB, Kizhakkedathu JN, Withers SG 2015 J Am Chem Soc View Researchers New or improved product or process
A Comparative Study of McFarland Turbidity Standards and the Densimat Photometer to Determine Bacterial Cell Density Zapata A, Ramirez-Arcos S 2015 Curr Microbiol View Blood operators New or improved product or process
HDFN and Perinatal Immune Thrombocytopenia Webert K, Hume H, Revised by Clarke G and Hannon J. 2015 Clinical Guide to Transfusion View Health care providers Other
In silico analysis suggests interaction between Ebola virus and the extracellular matrix Veljkovic V, Glisic S, Muller CP, Scotch M, Branch DR, Perovic VR, Sencanski M, Veljkovic N, Colombatti A 2015 Front Microbiol View Researchers Basic research
Novel evidence that pituitary gonadotropins directly stimulate human leukemic cells-studies of myeloid cell lines and primary patient AML and CML cells Abdelbaset-Ismail A, Borkowska S, Janowska-Wieczorek A, Tonn T, Rodriguez C, Moniuszko M, Bolkun L, Koloczko J, Eljaszewicz A, Ratajczak J, Ratajczak MZ, Kucia M 2015 Oncotarget View Researchers Basic research
ResearchUnit: Single site solution: engineering novel antibodies for the treatment of ITP Lazarus A 2015 Blood.ca website View Other Other
C-reactive protein enhances murine antibody-mediated transfusion-related acute lung injury Kapur R, Kim M, Shanmugabhavananthan S, Liu J, Li Y, Semple JW 2015 Blood View Researchers Basic research
Exploratory studies on the age of transfused blood and in-hospital mortality in patients with cardiovascular diagnoses Heddle NM, Eikelboom J, Liu Y, Barty R, Cook RJ 2015 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Fluorous Analogue of Chloramine-T: Preparation, X-ray Structure Determination, and Use as an Oxidant for Radioiodination and s-Tetrazine Synthesis Dzandzi JPK, Beckford Vera DR, Genady AR, Albu SA, Eltringham-Smith LJ, Capretta A, Sheffield WP, Valliant JF 2015 J Org Chem View Researchers Basic research
Red blood cell replacement, or nanobiotherapeutics with enhanced red blood cell functions? Chang TMS 2015 Artif Cells Nanomed Biotechnol View Researchers Basic research
2015 proceedings of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's State of the Science in Transfusion Medicine symposium Spitalnik SL, Triulzi D, Devine DV, Dzik WH, Eder AF, Gernsheimer T, Josephson CD, Kor DJ, Luban NLC, Roubinian NH, Mondoro T, Welniak LA, Zou S, Glynn S, for the State of the Science in Transfusion Medicine Working G 2015 Transfusion View Other Other
Differential Expression Analysis by RNA-Seq Reveals Perturbations in the Platelet mRNA Transcriptome Triggered by Pathogen Reduction Systems Osman A, Hitzler WE, Ameur A, Provost P 2015 PLoS One View Researchers Basic research
Generic immunosuppression in solid organ transplantation: systematic review and meta-analysis Molnar AO, Fergusson D, Tsampalieros AK, Bennett A, Fergusson N, Ramsay T, Knoll GA 2015 BMJ View Health care providers Clinical research
Impact of platelet transfusion on toxicity and mortality after hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation Christou G, Kekre N, Petrcich W, Tokessy M, Neurath D, Giulivi A, Saidenberg E, McDiarmid S, Atkins H, Bence-Bruckler I, Bredeson C, Huebsch L, Sabloff M, Sheppard D, Tay J, Tinmouth A, Allan DS 2015 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Part 2: Evidence Evaluation and Management of Conflicts of Interest: 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Morrison LJ, Gent LM, Lang E, Nunnally ME, Parker MJ, Callaway CW, Nadkarni VM, Fernandez AR, Billi JE, Egan JR, Griffin RE, Shuster M, Hazinski MF 2015 Circulation View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Regenerative Therapy and Immune Modulation Using Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Cells Damien P, Allan DS 2015 Biol Blood Marrow Transplant View Health care providers Other
The entity of immunoglobulin A-related anaphylactic transfusion reactions is not evidence based Sandler SG, Eder AF, Goldman M, Winters JL 2015 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Bare Bones: A Return to Anatomy for Teaching Bone Marrow Biopsy and Aspirate Procedures Zeller MP, Goldszmidt M, Cristancho S, Johnson M, Creces D, Mangel J 2015 MedEdPORTAL Publications View Health care providers Other
Buffy coat (top/bottom)- and whole-blood filtration (top/top)-produced red cell concentrates differ in size of extracellular vesicles Bicalho B, Pereira AS, Acker JP 2015 Vox Sang View Researchers Basic research
Evaluation of CONSORT compliance in TRANSFUSION Jaffer AM, Wang G, Barty RL, Shih AW 2015 Transfusion View Researchers Other
IgG-Mediated Immune Suppression to Erythrocytes by Polyclonal Antibodies Can Occur in the Absence of Activating or Inhibitory Fc? Receptors in a Full Mouse Model Bernardo L, Yu H, Amash A, Zimring JC, Lazarus AH 2015 J Immunol View Researchers Basic research
In silico analysis suggests repurposing of ibuprofen for prevention and treatment of EBOLA virus disease Veljkovic V, Goeijenbier M, Glisic S, Veljkovic N, Perovic VR, Sencanski M, Branch DR, Paessler S 2015 F1000Res View Researchers Basic research
Prevention of surface-induced thrombogenesis on poly(vinyl chloride) Fedorov K, Jankowski A, Sheikh S, Blaszykowski C, Reheman A, Romaschin A, Ni H, Thompson M 2015 J Mater Chem B Mater Biol Med View Researchers Basic research
Raman spectroscopy of stored red blood cells: evaluating clinically-relevant biochemical markers in donated blood Atkins CG, Buckley K, Chen D, Schulze HG, Devine DV, Blades MW, Turner RFB 2015 Clin Biomed Spectrosc Imag IV View Researchers New or improved product or process
ResearchUnit: ABO...K? Investigating if young females need more than ABO-compatible blood Goldman M 2015 Blood.ca website View Other Other
L'étude ABLE : un essai clinique randomisé sur l'effet de la durée d'entreposage des concentrés érythrocytaires transfusés en réanimation Lacroix J, Hébert PC, Fergusson D, Tinmouth A, Capellier G, Tiberghien P, Bardiaux L 2015 Transfus Clin Biol View Health care providers Clinical research
Levofloxacin for BK virus prophylaxis following kidney transplantation: a randomized clinical trial Knoll GA, Humar A, Fergusson D, Johnston O, House AA, Kim SJ, Ramsay T, Chasse M, Pang X, Zaltzman J, Cockfield S, Cantarovich M, Karpinski M, Lebel L, Gill JS 2014 JAMA View Health care providers Clinical research
Osmotic parameters of red blood cells from umbilical cord blood Zhurova M, McGann LE, Acker JP 2014 Cryobiology View Researchers Basic research
Physician registration for deceased organ donation Li AH, Dixon S, Prakash V, Kim SJ, Knoll GA, Lam NN, Garg AX 2014 JAMA View Health care providers Other
Autologous stem cell transplantation for stiff person syndrome: two cases from the Ottawa blood and marrow transplant program Sanders S, Bredeson C, Pringle CE, Martin L, Allan D, Bence-Bruckler I, Hamelin L, Hopkins HS, Sabloff M, Sheppard D, Tay J, Huebsch L, Atkins HL 2014 JAMA Neurol View Health care providers Clinical research