TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural modifications in membrane glycoproteins during the erythrocyte life-span
AU - Balduini, Cesare
AU - Brovelli, Augusta
AU - Balduini, Carlo Luigi
AU - Ascari, Edoardo
PY - 1979/1
Y1 - 1979/1
N2 - Erythrocyte membrane glycoproteins undergo various types of modification during the life of the cell in the circulation; when only sialic acid is removed, the younger red cells can be repaired in the liver and return to the circulation. Otherwise, when an autolytic mechanism removing a sialopeptide becomes active as a consequence of the metubolic impairment of the cell, the erythrocyte is probably trapped by the hemocatheretic organs and destroyed.
AB - Erythrocyte membrane glycoproteins undergo various types of modification during the life of the cell in the circulation; when only sialic acid is removed, the younger red cells can be repaired in the liver and return to the circulation. Otherwise, when an autolytic mechanism removing a sialopeptide becomes active as a consequence of the metubolic impairment of the cell, the erythrocyte is probably trapped by the hemocatheretic organs and destroyed.
KW - Erythrocyte aging and maturation
KW - Erythrocyte membrane glycoproteins
KW - Membrane sialic acid
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U2 - 10.1007/BF02905023
DO - 10.1007/BF02905023
M3 - Article
C2 - 493810
AN - SCOPUS:0018370264
VL - 9
SP - 13
EP - 22
JO - Ricerca in Clinica e in Laboratorio
JF - Ricerca in Clinica e in Laboratorio
SN - 0940-5437
IS - 1
ER -