BHOC
BHOC - Biological Hemoglobin Oxygen Carrier
What is new and why we exist. BHOC Therapeutics uses BHOC to mean Biological Hemoglobin Oxygen Carrier: a development framework centered on the oxygen-delivery function of hemoglobin rather than on the idea of replacing blood as a complete biological system.
What is BHOC?
Blood is a system. Oxygen delivery is a function.
Hemoglobin is the principal oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells. A hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier moves that oxygen-carrying function outside the intact red-cell framework through a specifically engineered hemoglobin formulation.
BHOC builds on the scientific history of hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) while emphasizing biological function, tissue oxygen delivery, evidence and practical deployment. BHOC is not presented as a substitute for every function of blood.
Hemoglobin
The biological molecule that reversibly binds oxygen and provides the core oxygen-carrying function used in hemoglobin-based oxygen-carrier technologies.
HBOC
Hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier: the established literature term covering multiple molecular designs, generations, products and development programs.
Biological Hemoglobin Oxygen Carrier
A function-first framing used by BHOC Therapeutics to connect hemoglobin biology, oxygen delivery, evidence, manufacturing and application-specific development.