Blood Viscosity Variations During Raynaud’s Phenomenon

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Forconi
Keyword(s):  
Cell Volume ◽  
Blood Viscosity ◽  
Raynaud’S Phenomenon ◽  
Raynaud's Phenomenon ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fibrinogen Concentration ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Viscosity Changes

Since several authors have found abnormal blood viscosity in patients suffering from Raynaud’s disease but did not study them at the moment when the phenomenon appeared, we want to find out whether haemorheological changes might be provoked in the patients during a cold-induced phenomenon. The study was conducted on ten selected patients suffering from Raynaud’s phenomenon only in one hand when exposed to cold. A relevant and statistically very significant increase of the viscosity was noted in the blood coming from the hand during the cold-induced ischemia. When the ischemia had disappeared, blood viscosity levels returned to those recorded before the experience. No variations were evident in either plasma and serum viscosity, or in packed red cell volume and in plasma fibrinogen concentration. In the other arm of the same patients, a much smaller increase in blood viscosity was noted. No variations were found in any of the parameters observed in six control subjects. These results seems to suggest that blood viscosity changes specifically in relation to the disease, that this change may be related to the behaviour of the red cells (increased aggregability or decreased deformability) as the consequence of the ischemia, and that this hyperviscosity may potentiate the hindrance to the flow at the microcirculatory level.

Alterations in tissue blood volume induced by tourniquet application

1960 ◽  
Vol 198 (4) ◽  
pp. 886-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Cell Volume ◽  
Blood Volume ◽  
Plasma Volume ◽  
Peripheral Circulation ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Red Cell Volume ◽  
Resistance Vessels ◽  
Venous Resistance

The application of occluding tourniquets to both hind legs of unanesthetized mice produced widespread changes in the distribution of plasma and red cells throughout the peripheral circulation. Following tourniquet application the plasma volume within all tissues declined except for lung which remained unaltered and muscle which exhibited an increase. The red cell volume changed variably, declining in liver and spleen, rising in kidney and muscle and remaining unchanged in the other tissues analyzed. These changes were suggestive of a somewhat generalized increase in peripherovascular constrictor activity which included venous resistance vessels in addition to arterioles.

Viscosity and Red Cell Deformity in Arterial Disease

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Cella ◽  
H de Haas ◽  
M Rampling ◽  
V Kakkar
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Disease ◽  
Blood Viscosity ◽  
Whole Blood ◽  
Arterial Disease ◽  
Plasma Viscosity ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Fibrinogen Concentration ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Whole Blood Viscosity ◽  
Significant Difference

Haemorrheological factors have been shown to be affected in many kings of vascular disease. The present study was undertaken to correlate these factors in normal subjects and patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease. Twenty-two patients were investigated; they had moderate or severe intermittent claudication, extent of disease being confirmed by aorto-arteriography and ankle-systolic pressure studies. Twenty-five controls with no symptoms or signs of arterial disease were selected with comparable age and sex distribution. Whole blood viscosity was measured at shear rates of 230 secs-1 and 23 secs-lat 37°c using a Wells Brookfield cone plate microvisco meter. Plasma viscosity was also measured in an identical manner. Erythrocyte flexibility was measured by centrifuge technique and fibrinogen concentration as well as haematocrit by standard techniques. The fibrinogen concentration appeared to be the only significant parameter; the mean concentration in patients with peripheral vascular disease of 463 ± 73mg/l00ml in the control group ( < 0.05). Although whole blood viscosity was high in patients, when corrected to a common haematocrit, there was no significant difference between patients and controls. The same megative correlation was found for plasma viscosity. The red cell flexibility was found to be increased in patients as compared to the control group, but this effect appeared to be simply proportional to the fibrinogen concentration.

Measurement of circulating red cell volume using biotin-labeled red cells: validation against 51Cr-labeled red cells

Transfusion ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Mock ◽  
Gary L. Lankford ◽  
John A. Widness ◽  
Leon F. Burmeister ◽  
Daniel Kahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Volume ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Red Cell Volume

scholarly journals Genetic variants of human red-cell membrane sialoglycoprotein β. Study of the alterations occurring in the sialoglycoprotein-β gene

1988 ◽  
Vol 250 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Tanner ◽  
S High ◽  
P G Martin ◽  
D J Anstee ◽  
P A Judson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variants ◽  
Southern Blotting ◽  
Protein Product ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Red Cell Membrane ◽  
Initiation Of Translation ◽  
Beta Gene ◽  
Human Red Cell Membrane

We have studied the DNA of individuals who express an altered sialoglycoprotein beta on their red cells by using Southern blotting with sialoglycoprotein-beta cDNA probes. Individuals of the Leach phenotype do not express any beta (sialoglycoprotein beta) or gamma (sialoglycoprotein gamma) on their red cells, and we show that about 7 kb of DNA, including the 3′ end of the beta gene, is deleted in this DNA. Any protein product of this gene is likely to lack the membrane-associating domain of beta. We have also examined the DNA of two types of other individuals (Yus-type and Gerbich-type) who have red cells that lack beta and gamma, but contain abnormal sialoglycoproteins related to beta. These two types of DNA contain different internal deletions of about 6 kb in the beta gene. We suggest that these deletions result from the presence of two different sets of internal homology in the beta gene, and on this basis we propose structures for the abnormal Yus-type and Gerbich-type sialoglycoproteins which are consistent with the other evidence that is available. We provide evidence that beta and gamma are products of the same gene and suggest a possible mechanism for the origin of gamma based on leaky initiation of translation of beta mRNA.

Persistence and Utilization of Maternal Iron For Blood Formation During Infancy

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-44
Keyword(s):  
Cell Volume ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Fetal Life ◽  
Dietary Iron ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Blood Formation ◽  
Maternal Iron ◽  
Dietary Origin

During the course of investigations of maternal red cell volume, employing transfusions with radioactive iron, an opportunity was afforded to measure the persistence and utilization of iron transferred across the placenta to the infant. A wealth of fundamental data was obtained concerning the importance of iron obtained from the mother in hematopoiesis during infancy. As the donors' cells containing radioactive iron which were transfused during pregnancy were broken down, radioactive iron was released into the general supply of the mother and fetus. At birth the blood of each infant contained a measurable ratio of radioactive iron to packed red cells. The ratio of radioactive iron to hemoglobin and to hemoglobin iron could then be calculated. Further calculations gave information concerning the amounts of hemoglobin iron of transplacental and dietary origin. The results indicated that there was little or no utilization of dietary iron for hemoglobin formation by the infants until 3 to 4 months after birth. Incorporation of the radioactive iron obtained transplacentally into hemoglobin during the growth of the infant indicated that normal infants utilize iron obtained during fetal life throughout infancy. Data from infants followed for a long period suggest that after 3 to 4 months dietary iron continues to be added to transplacental iron for the production of hemoglobin and gradually begins to replace transplacental iron in hemoglobin formation during the third year.

Acetylcholinesterase in Human Erythroid Cells

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 911-923
Author(s):  
R. J. SKAER
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Golgi Apparatus ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Erythroid Cells ◽  
Cell Replacement ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Human Red Cells

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.

Circulating and tissue hematocrits of normal unanesthetized mice

1959 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius J. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Serum Albumin ◽  
Cell Volume ◽  
Plasma Volume ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Volume Data ◽  
Red Cell Volume ◽  
Volume Measurements ◽  
Total Body

The circulating and tissue hematocrits of normal unanesthetized mice were determined by means of independent red cell and plasma volume measurements. The red cell volume-indicator which was used in this study was radioiron (Fe59) tagged red cells. The plasma volume data were derived by means of radioiodine (I131) labeled serum albumin and were reported earlier (Friedman, Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 88: 323, 1955). The hematocrits of the various tissues were found to be: for spleen 51.3, lung 47.9, muscle 49.9, liver 38.9, intestine, 32.2, skin 29.2 and kidney 24.0%. The total body hematocrit was 35.4% as compared to 48.4 for venous blood. All tissues, with the exception of spleen and lung, contained hematocrits which were lower than that of venous blood suggesting the presence of some mechanism within the various tissues which is capable of effectively separating plasma from red cells.

scholarly journals Red cell diphosphoglycerate mutase. Immunochemical studies in vertebrate red cells, including a human variant lacking 2,3-DPG

Blood ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 953-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
LL Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Genetic Variant ◽  
Neonatal Period ◽  
Human Erythrocytes ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Radial Immunodiffusion ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Human Adult ◽  
2,3 Dpg

Abstract Diphosphoglycerate mutase (DPGM) was purified to homogeneity from human erythrocytes. The enzyme and Freund adjuvant were injected into chickens and yielded a monospecific precipitating antibody. Radial immunodiffusion with this antibody was used to measure the amount of DPGM in hemolysates from human adult and cord red cells. Dog, rabbit, rat, chicken, and goat red cells all had DPGM during the neonatal period, but goat adult red cells had no detectable enzyme. Single bands with no spurs were present on Ouchterlony plates in which human hemolysate was placed adjacent to hemolysates from the other species tested. The amount of human red cell DPGM did not differ between young and old cells separated by centrifugation. Red cells from a patient with a DPGM genetic variant who had erythrocytosis and no detectable enzyme activity contained a reduced amount of DPGM as determined by radial immunodiffusion. The abnormal DPGM differed from normal by immunoelectrophoresis and in stability as measured by the amount of crossreacting material in young versus old erythrocytes.

Quantitative measurement of erythropoiesis in the dog

1960 ◽  
Vol 198 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Weissman ◽  
T. A. Waldmann ◽  
N. I. Berlin
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Cell Survival ◽  
Cell Volume ◽  
Quantitative Measurement ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Red Cell Volume ◽  
Cell Life ◽  
Red Cell Survival

The quantitative measurement of erythropoiesis requires the simultaneous determination of total red cell volume, rate of production of red cells and the red cell life span. The total red cell volume was measured with autologous Cr51-labeled red cells, the rate of production of red cells from the rate of disappearance of radioiron from the plasma and uptake by red cells, the red cell life span with C14-labeled glycine and the apparent red cell survival T1/2 with Cr51. The average total red cell volume of the dogs studied was 38.6 cc/kg; the plasma radioiron T1/2 was 66 minutes; the red cell radio-iron uptake was 80%; the serum iron was 102 µg/100 cc, and the plasma volume calculated from the peripheral hematocrit and total red cell volume was 46 cc/kg, and from the extrapolation to t0 of the radioiron disappearance was 48 cc/kg. From these figures the plasma iron turnover was calculated to be 0.63 mg/kg/day and the red cell iron renewal rate 1.26%/day. The average red cell life span was 108 days; the average apparent T1/2 of Cr51 red cell survival was 24.3 days; the average elution rate of Cr51 was 1.77%/day.

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