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Relationship between Activity of Pyruvate Kinase and Age of the Normal Human Erythrocyte

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MATURE erythrocytes of human beings derive energy chiefly through anaerobic glycolysis. Pyruvate kinase catalyses a key1,2, adenosine triphosphate-generating glycolytic reaction. We have examined the relationship between the activity of pyruvate kinase and the age of the normal human red cell.

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    ROBIN D. POWELL & RICHARD L. DEGOWIN

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POWELL, R., DEGOWIN, R. Relationship between Activity of Pyruvate Kinase and Age of the Normal Human Erythrocyte. Nature 205, 507 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205507a0

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