McCurdy cell

Alcohol has a dose-related toxic effect on erythropoiesis. In this context, vacuolization of the nuclei and plasma of the proerythroblasts (so-called McCurdy cells) can mostly be observed. The mean corpuscular volume of erythrocytes (MCV) increases with rising alcohol consumption in 50—60% of patients, particularly when consuming high-proof alcoholic drinks. Megaloblastic anaemia... 

McCurdy and Katz have described a simple visual cell for measuring vapour-liquid equilibrium. The equilibrium cell had a volume of 92 cm , was fitted with double glass windows and could be rocked to agitate the fluid phases and thus bring them into equilibrium. The sample was confined over mercury. To sample the gas phase, mercury was driven into the cell at the bottom at the same rate as gas sample was removed from the top. The liquid phase was sampled by completely removing the vapour sample and then the liquid sample by injection of mercury into the bottom of the cell. The gas and liquid samples were analysed by chemical gas absorption methods. 

Offler, C.E. McCurdy D.W. Patrick, J.W. Talbot, M.J. (2003). Transfer cells cells specialized for a special purpose. Annual Review of Plant Biology, Vol.54, pp. 431-454, ISSN 1543-5008... 

Gluodenis, T.J., Jr. Sakata, K. i., and McCurdy, E. (1999). Minimizing polyatomic interferences in ICP-MS—The authors review the three commonly used methods for minimizing interferences in ICP-MS and discuss their use of a cool-plasma-based system involving a collision/reaction cell. Spectroscopy 14(3), 16. 

McCurdy, E. and Woods, G. (2004) The application of colhsion/reaction cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to multi-element analysis in variable sample matrices, using He as a non-reactive cell gas. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 19(5), 607-15. 

Kovar, D. R. Gibbon, B. C. McCurdy, D. W. Staiger, C. J. Fluorescently-labeled fimbrin decorates a dynamic actin filament network in live plant cells. 

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