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Disk-sphere Transformation and Plasticity Alteration of Red Blood Cells

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Harris, McAllister and Prankerd have shown1 that normal red blood cells damaged in vitro by different procedures and re-infused into the donor are rapidly removed from the circulation and sequestered mainly in the spleen. The artificial alteration of normal erythrocytes produced by heating them at 49.5° C after their tagging with radioactive chromium has since been introduced as a routine procedure in the clinical investigation of spleen enlargement by means of external scintillation2–8.

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TEITEL, P. Disk-sphere Transformation and Plasticity Alteration of Red Blood Cells. Nature 206, 409–410 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206409a0

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