TURNOVERS OF ERYTHROCYTES AND PLASMA PROTEINS IN MAMMALS
TURNOVERS OF ERYTHROCYTES AND PLASMA PROTEINS IN MAMMALS
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DOI:
10.1038/188037a0
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发表时间:
1960-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
ALLISON, AC
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作者:
ALLISON, AC
UCH work has been carried out on the survival of erythrocytes and plasma proteins in different animals. In general, a clear pattern has emerged. Plasma proteins disappear from the circulation exponentially, as illustrated by curve A in Fig. 1 (refs. 1, 2). Under favourable conditions of iodination, the rates of disappearance of iodinated proteins or passively transferred antibody globulins (including protein molecules of all ages) are the same as those obtained with proteins after** C-amino-acid labelling (in which most labelled molecules are of a similar age), º. It follows that removal of plasma pro-teins from the circulation is a random process which is largely independent of the age of the protein molecules.This process stands in sharp contrast to the removal of erythrocytes from the circulation. There is substantial evidence that the normal disappearance of erythrocytes from the circula-tion is linear rather than exponential"(Fig. 1B). Cells labelled by incorporation of isotopic glycine into hæm show survival curves of the type illustrated in Fig. 1C. Apart from an initial rapid breakdown, they remain at approximately constant level for a certain period, about 100 days in man, after which they rapidly disappear from the circulation".". This suggests that the factor determining their breakdown in or removal from the circulation depends primarily on some property of the aged cell, while external factors are of secondary