Abstract
The content and characteristics of plasma transferrin were studied in Campbell rats with hereditary degeneration of the retina and healthy Wistar rats in various periods of postnatal life. In Campbell rats aged 20 days the content of nonhemic iron was found to be 1.9 times lower, and the content of transferrin in the blood plasma 4.3 times lower than in healthy animals. The degree of transferrin saturation with iron in these animals was 2.3 times higher than in heathy rats. Differences in the content of transferrin and degree of its saturation with iron were leveled by days 45 and 90 of life. Apotransferrins of sick and normal rats did not differ in their capacity for saturation with iron.
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