Tr: A Canine Red Cell Antigen Related to the A-antigen of Human Red Cells

Vox Sanguinis ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 542-554
Author(s):  
A.J. Bowdler ◽  
R.W. Bull ◽  
R. Slating ◽  
S.N. Swisher
Vox Sanguinis ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 542-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Bowdler ◽  
R. W. Bull ◽  
R. Slating ◽  
S. N. Swisher

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Sarkadi ◽  
J K Alifimoff ◽  
R B Gunn ◽  
D C Tosteson

This paper describes the kinetics and stoichiometry of a tightly coupled Na-Li exchange transport system in human red cells. The system is inhibited by phloretin and furosemide but not by ouabain. Li influx by this system increases and saturates with increasing concentrations of external Li and internal Na and is inhibited competitively by external Na. Comparable functions relate Li efflux and Na efflux to internal and external Li and Na concentrations. Analysis of these relations yields the following values for the ion concentrations required to half-maximally activate the transport system: internal Na and Li 9.0 and 0.5 mM, respectively, external Na and Li 25 and 1.5 mM, respectively. The system performs a 1:1 exchange of Na and Li moving in opposite directions across the red cell membrane. We found no evidence for a simultaneous transport of more than one Na and Li by the system. The maximum transport rate of Na-dependent Li transport varied between 0.1 and 0.37 mmol/(liter of cells X h) in the red cells of the five normal male subjects studied. No significant variations between individual subjects were observed for bicarbonate-stimulated Li transport and for the residual Li fluxes which occur in the absence of bicarbonate and in the presence of ouabain plus phloretin.


1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 911-923
Author(s):  
R. J. SKAER

Acetylcholinesterase is present in human red cells but cannot be demonstrated by the copper thiocholine test. The enzyme is revealed, however, in the perinuclear cisterna, endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus of red cell precursors. It is suggested that 2 forms of the enzyme are present, one of which can be demonstrated by the copper thiocholine test, the other cannot; one form may be the precursor of the other. These observations may cast light on the kinetics of red cell replacement and on the interpretation of the results from the copper thiocholine test on other tissues such as the nervous system.


1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
J W ten Cate ◽  
N J van Haeringen ◽  
J Gerritsen ◽  
E Glasius

Abstract The effect of O-(β-hydroxyethyl)-rutoside (HR) on human erythrocyte and platelet functions is reported. Only high concentrations of the compound distinctly inhibited red cell and platelet aggregation induced by ADP and epinephrine. Lower concentrations of HR inhibit [14C8]adenosine incorporation into red cells as well as into platelets. Inhibition occurs at both 0°C and 37°C, presumably because diffusion of [14C8]adenosine is hindered. Phosphorylation of [14C8] adenosine by the platelets is not inhibited by HR. The inhibition of red cell aggregation is reversed by washing the cells with plasma. Collectively, these findings indicate an effect of the compound at the site of the membrane, independent of cellular metabolism


Blood ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIC PONDER

Abstract Human red cells treated with trypsin in such a way as to become agglutinable in the presence of incomplete antibodies are affected in certain other respects. Their volume is slightly increased, their ghosts are unusually rigid or "volume-occupying," their osmotic and mechanical fragilities are slightly increased and their electrophoretic mobility is reduced. These changes are probably due to effects on the protein components of the red cell surface ultrastructure. Similar effects are also produced by the related enzyme mexacain.


1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Duvelleroy ◽  
M. Duruble ◽  
J. L. Martin ◽  
B. Teisseire ◽  
J. Droulez ◽  
...  

We describe a method for perfusion of a working isolated rat heart with washed erythrocytes suspended in a Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer containing bovine albumin (fraction V). With washed pig red cells, as hematocritwas varied between 0 and 40%, coronary flow (CF), aortic flow (AF), external work (W), and myocardial oxygen consumption (MVO2) were measured. Hemodynamic data at a hematocrit of 30% (CF = 5.4 +/- 0.7 ml/min per g, AF = 75 +/- 8 ml/min per g) were identical with those reported for the intact animal.Coronary sinus PO2 was highest with a red cell-free perfusate suggesting that coronary flow is partially shunted. Human red cells obtained from bankedblood, were tried also with success. With careful filtration, the preparation is stable for 2 h and well suited for study of the dynamics of myocardial oxygen delivery.


1960 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Bischoff ◽  
George Bryson

Experiments were designed to establish whether the estrogens penetrate the membrane of the red cells or are transported by it. By hemolyzing red cells and reconditioning the ghosts, it was shown that the enzyme, estronase, follows the hemoglobin and therefore indicates that estrone and estradiol penetrate the membrane. Distribution of estradiol between intact red cells or reconditioned ghosts and ghost-free hemolysates of red cells or crystallized hemoglobin solution was proportional to the hemoglobin content when a correction for water solubility was made. Since the ghosts had frac13 the attraction of the intact cell, penetration is required to account for the distribution in the intact cell. Red cell ghost concentrates when prepared under certain conditions were found to have considerable affinity for estradiol, but on the basis of their low concentration per cell could account for only a fraction of the red cell affinity instrumental for estrogen orientation, even if their behavior did not reflect a change in properties during preparation. Ghosts prepared under the mildest conditions failed to demonstrate this affinity for estradiol. Submitted on September 14, 1959


Blood ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 721-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM P. CREGER ◽  
HOUGHTON GIFFORD

Abstract 1. Saline suspensions of human red cells, as well as those of several animal species, were agglutinated by normal saline extracts of the Fava bean. 2. This agglutination was potentiated in titer 100-fold in a medium of 10 per cent acacia, as a diluent. 3. The inhibition of the hemagglutination action of the Fava bean extract by human serum was apparently attributable to the gamma globulin fraction. 4. The Fava bean principle could be transferred from cell to cell, as shown by heat-elution and acacia technics. 5. Fava-sensitized red cells did not exhibit increased susceptibility in the test tube to complement, hemolysin, or osmotic or mechanical fragility. 6. The mechanism of in vivo red cell destruction in Favism is as yet unknown, but a special immunologic susceptibility to the action of the bean’s principle is suspected in certain persons. 7. It is suggested that the relation of acacia to Fava-sensitized red cells may form the basis of a diagnostic test for Favism in the early, acute stages of the disease.


1935 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Ponder ◽  
Douglas Marsland

By means of measurements from cinematograph films of the time taken for human red cells to lose hemoglobin while hemolyzing, it is shown that small concentrations of saponin bring about a relatively small permeability of the cell membrane to the pigment, whereas large concentrations so destroy the membrane that the theoretical time for loss of pigment through a completely permeable membrane (0.16 second) is very nearly attained. These results are in agreement with those obtained from electrical measurements, and the dependence of permeability on lysin concentration can be explained on the basis of what is known about the rate of transformation of lysin as it reacts with the cell envelope. When cells are hemolyzed by hypotonic solutions, on the other hand, the permeability of the membrane to pigment is nearly constant, irrespective of the tonicity used to bring about lysis.


1948 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. deBurgh ◽  
Pen-Chung Yu ◽  
Calderon Howe ◽  
Max Bovarnick

Methods have been described for the extraction and purification of an agent inhibiting the hemagglutination of red cells by influenza (PR8) and mumps viruses. Human red cells have served as the chief source of the inhibitor but the latter has also been found in human lung. The active extracts have been purified to the extent that 0.1 gamma of material suffices to inhibit one hemagglutinating dose of virus. Incomplete chemical characterization of the most highly purified fractions available indicates the presence of 2.6 per cent nitrogen, at least 50 per cent of polysaccharide, and no phosphorus. In the ultracentrifuge the purified preparation behaves as a polydisperse macromolecular substance. The active material can be obtained from red cell stroma in an ether- and chloroform-soluble form which, on further treatment, can be converted into chloroform-insoluble material. It is possible that the former represents more closely the virus receptor as it exists in the red cell. The purified inhibitor is inactivated on incubation with the virus at 37°C. The nature of this effect is being investigated.


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