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THE RATE OF RESPIRATION IN ERYTHROCYTES.—II. THE RATE IN MATURE RABBIT ERYTHROCYTES
Author(s) -
Ramsey Robert,
Warren Charles O.
Publication year - 1932
Publication title -
quarterly journal of experimental physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0370-2901
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1932.sp000556
Subject(s) - rabbit (cipher) , respiration , respiration rate , chemistry , biology , anatomy , mathematics , statistics
1. Orthochromatic rabbit erythrocytes suspended in saline consume oxygen at the minimum rate of 8.44 mm. 3 /grm./hr., and reticulocytes at the rate of 250 mm. 3 /grm./hr. 2. In a sample of blood drawn from a normal rabbit, in which the reticulocyte concentration is 0·5 per cent., nearly 90 per cent. of the observed respiration of the red cells is due to the orthochromatic erythrocytes. 3. With the progress of anæmia (by hæmorrhage) more oxygen is consumed by the red cells than can be accounted for on the basis that the two rates of respiration given above remain constant.