Abstract
AbstractIt has been found that human red cell ghosts react differently in the presence of various sugars in the medium. The stability of spheric ghosts is preserved in solutions of sugars entering red cells by means of the common carrier. In media of other sugars the ghosts' shapes change to shrunken, crenated forms and between the microscope slides to discoid ones. Under the conditions employed it was further observed that the incubation of fructose‐ or rhamnose‐containing ghosts in solutions of sugars sharing the carriers led to an equilibration of sugars between the medium and the ghosts. The impermeability of ghosts for sugars not sharing the carriers was supported by the finding that fructose could be washed out to a much less extent than glucose. These results suggest that sugars without affinity to the carriers may move in the erythrocyte membrane through nonspecific sites (pores, channels).
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