Rabbit erythrocytes

The experiments of Harris (1965) which show initiation of DNA synthesis in nuclei of hen erythrocytes, rabbit maerophages, and rat lymphocytes after virus-induced fusion with HeLa cells can similarly be interpreted as providing evidence for the intervention of a positive factor emanating from the actively synthesizing cell. 

Fig. 11.—Sequence of a 2S-Sugar Residue Glycosphingolipid Isolated from Rabbit Erythrocyte Membranes. (Cleavage points, and the masses of fragment ions of the permethylated derivative, are shown. No fragment-ions were observed above 4000, because of the poor sensitivity at high mass.)...

Complement activity was first recognized by Bordet, who showed that the lytic activity of rabbit anti-sheep erythrocyte serum was lost on heating to 56°C but was restored by the addition of fiesh serum from an unimmunized rabbit. Thus, two faetors were necessary, a heat-stable factor, antibody, plus a heat-labile factor, complement, whieh is present in all sera. 

Electrophoresis involves the movement of a charged particle through a liquid under the influence of an applied potential difference. A sample is placed in an electrophoresis cell, usually a horizontal tube of circular cross section, fitted with two electrodes. When a known potential is applied across the electrodes, the particles migrate to the oppositely charged electrode. The direct current voltage applied needs to be adjusted to obtain a particle velocity that is neither too fast nor too slow to allow for errors in measurement and Brownian motion, respectively. It is also important that the measurement is taken reasonably quickly in order to avoid sedimentation in the cell. Prior to each measurement, the apparatus should be calibrated with particles of known zeta potential, such as rabbit erythrocytes. 

Gelman et al. (1978) found that the interaction between lead and phenylhydrazine produced an additive effect in the acute hemolytic phase of anemia and a probable synergistic effect during the compensatory phase of anemia in rabbits. The mechanism postulated for anemic interaction appears to be primarily related to depressed bone marrow production of erythrocytes rather than to increased hemolysis. 

Figure 9.5 Healthy volunteer monocytes after erythrophagocytosis. Rabbit erythrocytes were incubated with heat-inactivated mouse antirabbit erythrocyte serum. Human peripheral blood monocytes (MN) were obtained after Ficoll-Paque isolation and monocyte clumping with subsequent separation from lymphocytes, yielding a 95 % pure MN population. Non-ingested erythrocytes were removed by hypotonic lysis.

These specific substances or blood group factors are detected by their property of inhibiting agglutinin reactions between human erythrocytes and heterologous human sera. This is the so-called isoagglutinin test which can detect the factors in dilutions of more than 1 part in 10 million. An even more sensitive but less specific test is their power to inhibit hemolysis of sheep s erythrocytes by the serum of rabbits immunized with certain human corpuscles. 

Finally, the clusters were tested as inhibitors of hemagglutination of pig and rabbit erythrocytes by type-1 piliated UTI89 clinical isolate E. coli. The inhibition titer (IT), that is, the lowest concentration of the inhibitor at which no agglutination occurs, showed tetramer 51 to be the best inhibitor of hemagglutination, with an IT of about 3 fiM, or a factor of 6000 as compared to its affinity, and corresponding to 1000-fold better inhibition than that induced by D-mannose. Overall, tetravalent cluster 51 was the best noncovalent cross-linker of Con A and the best ligand known to E. coli K12 FimH. 

Donovan, J.A., and Jennings, M.L. (1986) N-Hydroxysulfosuccinimido active esters and the L-( + )-lactate transport protein in rabbit erythrocytes. Biochemistry 25, 1538-1545. 

Smith (1996) summarized data on the spontaneous methemoglobin reductase activity of mammalian erythrocytes. Using nitrated RBCs with glucose as a substrate, the data reflect the ratio of the activity of the species to the activity in human RBCs. Activity in rat cells and human cells ranged from 1.3 to 5.0. Activity in cells of the cat and dog was similar to that in human cells, and that of the rabbit was 3.3 to 7.5 times greater. Most studies show that the spontaneous methemoglobin reductase activity of human erythrocytes is within an order of magnitude of that of other mammals (Smith 1996). 

Figure 4. Comparison of the uptake of Li+ into erythrocytes from rat and rabbit, determined by 7Li NMR spectroscopy [34],...

The differences between the enzyme preparations with respect to the requirement of added methylene blue are in good agreement with the finding of varying amounts of MHb in the normal blood of several species (H7) and variable, but species-linked abilities to reduce MHb (K9, Kll, S17). Furthermore, an age variation in MHb reduction of rabbit erythrocytes has been observed (S17). 

Spicer, S. S., and Reynolds, H., Individual and age variation in methe-moglobin formation and reduction in rabbit erythrocytes. Am. J. Physiol. 159, 47-56 (1949). 

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