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red blood cell: see blood blood, fluid pumped by the heart that circulates throughout the body via the arteries, veins, and capillaries (see circulatory system ; heart ). An adult male of average size normally has about 6 quarts (5.6 liters) of blood. ..... Click the link for more information. . erythrocyteor red blood cell or red blood corpuscleBlood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Hemoglobin gives the cell—and whole blood—its colour. Red cells are small, round, flexible, and concave on both sides and lack a nucleus. They develop continuously in bone marrow in several stages and are stored in the spleen. The mature form lives 100–120 days. Adult human blood has about 5.2 million red cells per cu mm. Some conditions change their shape (e.g., pernicious anemia, sickle-cell anemia) or number (e.g., anemia, polycythemia). |
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Serum was then incubated with virus at 8 hemagglutinin U/50 [micro]L with 1% horse erythrocytes in 0. The polystyrene particles we used for the studies with the macrophages and erythrocytes were either uncharged, amino-modified, or carboxylate-modified (Rothen-Rutishauser B, Gehr P, Schurch S, unpublished data). Hematide is a synthetic peptide erythropoiesis-stimulating agent that has a property to increase the number of erythrocytes (red blood cells). |
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