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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Kausik Das, Lincoln, NE (US);
Gary D. Krzyzanowski, Omaha, MI (US);
Joel Lechner, Omaha, NE (US);
Stephanie Wigginton, Papillion, NE (US);
Kausik Das, Lincoln, NE (US);
Gary D. Krzyzanowski, Omaha, MI (US);
Joel Lechner, Omaha, NE (US);
Stephanie Wigginton, Papillion, NE (US);
Streck, Inc., LaVista, NE (US);
Abstract
By way of summary, the present invention meets some or all of the above needs by providing in a first aspect a method comprising contacting red blood cells in a suspension medium containing mannose under conditions such that the concentration of S-Alc glycated hemoglobin is increased to greater than about 6 percent by weight of the hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Preferably the suspension medium is an aqueous suspension medium. In preferred embodiments, the method is performed at about ambient temperature, 18° C. to about 23° C.