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Comparative study of the transition temperature of calf and adult cattle erythrocytes

Imre, S.

Blut 46(5): 289-293

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0006-5242
PMID: 6839029
DOI: 10.1007/bf00319869
Accession: 005001726

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The temperature dependence of osmotic fragility in calf and adult cattle erythrocytes was compared. The temperature dependence of osmotic fragility has revealed inflections in calf red cells generally at 20.degree. C (293.degree. K), in adult cattle red cells at about 30.degree. C (303.degree. K). One possible explanation for the lower transition temperature of calf erythrocytes is that the microviscosity of the protein-lipid boundary might be considerably less in the membrane of the calf cell than in the adult cell.

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