Abstract
Erythrocytes in a normal blood sample are hemolyzed over a range of hypotonic salt concentrations. In order to investigate the relationship between the distribution of osmotic fragilities and the distribution of cellular ages, the osmotic fragility has been compared with three indices of cellular age. The activity of glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase (GOT) and the percentage hemoglobin A 1C were measured in samples hemolyzed in different hypotonic salt concentrations. The osmotic fragility curve was also obtained for cells of different density separated by centrifugation. These experiments indicate that the fragility distribution is not an accurate reflection of the distribution of cellular ages. The mean fragility for older cells is higher than that of younger cells. However, cellular aging does not produce a gradual increase in osmotic fragility. Instead, it seems to produce changes which can both increase and decrease the fragility, resulting in a broader distribution of fragilities with some of the older cells actually less fragile than the younger ones.
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