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Understanding quasi-apoptosis of the most numerous enucleated components of blood needs detailed molecular autopsy. Ageing Res Rev 2017; 35:46-62. [PMID: 28109836 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2017.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Erythrocytes are the most numerous cells in human body and their function of oxygen transport is pivotal to human physiology. However, being enucleated, they are often referred to as a sac of molecules and their cellularity is challenged. Interestingly, their programmed death stands a testimony to their cell-hood. They are capable of self-execution after a defined life span by both cell-specific mechanism and that resembling the cytoplasmic events in apoptosis of nucleated cells. Since the execution process lacks the nuclear and mitochondrial events in apoptosis, it has been referred to as quasi-apoptosis or eryptosis. Several studies on molecular mechanisms underlying death of erythrocytes have been reported. The data has generated a non-cohesive sketch of the process. The lacunae in the present knowledge need to be filled to gain deeper insight into the mechanism of physiological ageing and death of erythrocytes, as well as the effect of age of organism on RBCs survival. This would entail how the most numerous cells in the human body die and enable a better understanding of signaling mechanisms of their senescence and premature eryptosis observed in individuals of advanced age.
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Padmore R. Possible mechanisms for intravenous immunoglobulin-associated hemolysis: clues obtained from review of clinical case reports. Transfusion 2015; 55 Suppl 2:S59-64. [DOI: 10.1111/trf.13090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Revised: 02/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Ruth Padmore
- Ottawa Hospital and Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association and University of Ottawa; Ottawa Ontario Canada
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Kamhieh-Milz J, Bartl B, Sterzer V, Kamhieh-Milz S, Salama A. Storage of RBCs results in an increased susceptibility for complement-mediated degradation. Transfus Med 2014; 24:392-9. [DOI: 10.1111/tme.12166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2014] [Revised: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 11/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- J. Kamhieh-Milz
- Institute for Transfusion Medicine; Charité University Medical Centre; Berlin Germany
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine; Charité University Medical Centre; Berlin Germany
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine; Charité University Medical Centre; Berlin Germany
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine; Charité University Medical Centre; Berlin Germany
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine; Charité University Medical Centre; Berlin Germany
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Tan E, Bienzle D, Shewen P, Kruth S, Wood D. Potentially antigenic RBC membrane proteins in dogs with primary immune-mediated hemolytic anemia. Vet Clin Pathol 2012; 41:45-55. [PMID: 22315967 DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165x.2011.00391.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Primary immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in dogs. The mechanisms underlying autoimmune reactivity remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify membrane proteins of RBCs that could be antigenic in dogs with primary IMHA. METHODS Antibodies were eluted with xylene from RBCs of 12 dogs with IMHA, 4 dogs with anemia due to causes other than IMHA, and 2 healthy dogs. Pooled RBC membrane proteins were prepared from blood of 17 healthy dogs. The eluted antibodies were then analyzed by immunoblotting for interactions with the pooled membrane proteins and autologous plasma. Bands present in the 12 dogs with IMHA but not in the 6 other dogs were considered potential autoantigens and were identified by liquid chromatography followed by tandem mass spectrometry. RESULTS RBC eluates from all 18 dogs had reactivity against band 3 protein. Antibodies to 6 additional proteins were uniquely identified in dogs with IMHA. Reactivity to calpain, complement component 3, and peroxiredoxin 2 was identified in 8, 8, and 4 of the 12 samples, respectively, from dogs with IMHA, but in none of the samples from the 6 dogs without IMHA. CONCLUSIONS Detection of universal immune reactivity against band 3 protein probably indicates recognition of senescent RBC. Proteins uniquely recognized by antibodies in dogs with IMHA are involved in oxidative stress and apoptosis (calpain), inflammation (complement), and scavenging of reactive oxygen species (peroxiredoxin 2). It remains to be determined if these proteins are important in initiating autoimmunity or if immunoglobulins targeting these proteins develop during IMHA.
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- Emmeline Tan
- Departments of Pathobiology, Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
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Complement fraction 3 binding on erythrocytes as additional mechanism of disease in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria patients treated by eculizumab. Blood 2009; 113:4094-100. [PMID: 19179465 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-11-189944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) hemolytic anemia is due mainly to deficiency of the complement regulator CD59 on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). Eculizumab, an antibody that targets complement fraction 5 (C5), has proven highly effective in abolishing complement-mediated intravascular hemolysis in PNH; however, the hematologic benefit varies considerably among patients. In the aim to understand the basis for this variable response, we have investigated by flow cytometry the binding of complement fraction 3 (C3) on RBCs from PNH patients before and during eculizumab treatment. There was no evidence of C3 on RBCs of untreated PNH patients; by contrast, in all patients on eculizumab (n = 41) a substantial fraction of RBCs had C3 bound on their surface, and this was entirely restricted to RBCs with the PNH phenotype (CD59(-)). The proportion of C3(+) RBCs correlated significantly with the reticulocyte count and with the hematologic response to eculizumab. In 3 patients in whom (51)Cr labeling of RBCs was carried out while on eculizumab, we have demonstrated reduced RBC half-life in vivo, with excess (51)Cr uptake in spleen and in liver. Binding of C3 by PNH RBCs may constitute an additional disease mechanism in PNH, strongly enhanced by eculizumab treatment and producing a variable degree of extravascular hemolysis.
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Hemoglobin normalization after splenectomy in a paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria patient treated by eculizumab. Blood 2008; 112:449-51. [PMID: 18606894 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-04-151613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Owuor BO, Odhiambo CO, Otieno WO, Adhiambo C, Makawiti DW, Stoute JA. Reduced immune complex binding capacity and increased complement susceptibility of red cells from children with severe malaria-associated anemia. Mol Med 2008; 14:89-97. [PMID: 18317566 DOI: 10.2119/2007-00093.owuor] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2007] [Accepted: 11/21/2007] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Plasmodium falciparum malaria causes 1-2 million deaths per year. Most deaths occur as a result of complications such as severe anemia and cerebral malaria (CM) (coma). Red cells of children with severe malaria-associated anemia (SMA) have acquired deficiencies in the complement regulatory proteins complement receptor 1 (CR1, CD35) and decay accelerating factor (DAF, CD55). We investigated whether these deficiencies affect the ability of erythrocytes to bind immune complexes (ICs) and regulate complement activation. We recruited 75 children with SMA (Hb < or = 6 g/dL) from the holoendemic malaria region of the Lake Victoria basin, western Kenya, and 74 age- and gender-matched uncomplicated malaria controls. In addition, we recruited 32 children with CM and 52 age- and gender-matched controls. Deficiencies in red cell CR1 and CD55 in children with SMA were accompanied by a marked decline in IC binding capacity and increased C3b deposition in vivo and ex vivo. Importantly, these changes were specific because they were not seen in red cells of children with CM or their controls. These data suggest that the declines in red cell CR1 and CD55 seen in children with SMA are of physiologic significance and may predispose erythrocytes to complement-mediated damage and phagocytosis in vivo.
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- Boaz O Owuor
- The US Army Medical Research Unit, Kenya, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Gershon H. The anti-inflammatory role of the erythrocyte: impairment in the elderly. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2005; 24:157-65. [PMID: 15374122 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4943(96)00748-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/1996] [Revised: 07/09/1996] [Accepted: 07/12/1996] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Human erythrocytes have significant anti-inflammatory capability. Via their complement receptor, CR1 (CD35), they function as the major carriers of immune complexes in the circulation and as a co-factor for factor-I in the cleavage of C3b and the resultant inactivation of C3- and C5-convertases. Erythrocytes of the elderly are defective in their control of C3- and C5-convertases and are thus defective in protecting the elderly from the inflammatory consequences of the activation of complement in the circulation. This defect stems from the reduced levels of CR1 and decay accelerating factor and from defective CR1 function. Erythrocytes of the elderly resemble senescent erythrocytes from young donors in that their CR1 can neither bind immune complexes nor function as a co-factor in the factor-I mediated cleavage of C3b. The erythrocytes of the elderly are defective in both promoting convertase decay and supporting C3b cleavage. The reduced levels and functional defects of erythrocyte CR1 should hamper the ability of the elderly individual to effectively clear the circulation of potentially inflammatory immune complexes as well as of micro-organisms which have bound complement via the alternative complement pathway. This defect in the ability to clear immune complexes and micro-organisms bearing C3b from the circulation should render the elderly individual susceptible to varied pathologies including infection, inflammation and concomitant damage to the vascular tissue commonly observed in the elderly.
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- H Gershon
- Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, POB 9649, Bat Galim, Haifa 31096, Israel.
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Rewald MDE, Francischetti MM. After eight-year-tolerance minimal i.v. anti-D infusions unleash hemolysis in a patient with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Transfus Apher Sci 2004; 30:105-10. [PMID: 15062747 DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2003.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2003] [Accepted: 09/03/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Minimal doses of i.v. anti-D for ITP are not exempt from the risk of intravascular hemolysis, a rare potentially severe short-lived post-infusion complication. We report here on an elderly woman with chronic pancytopenia and splenomegaly in whom bleeding manifestations ceased after i.v. anti-Rh(D) immunoglobulin minidoses replaced long-term conventional treatment for immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Anti-Rh(D) infusions, that had been well tolerated for eight years, became the main culprit in triggering of disproportionate hemolysis. In spite of in crescendo complication, the anti-Rh(D) immunoglobulin schedule was maintained for another six months. With no further treatment, the patient's health remains stable 20 months later.
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Kessary-Shoham H, Levy Y, Shoenfeld Y, Lorber M, Gershon H. In vivo administration of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) can lead to enhanced erythrocyte sequestration. J Autoimmun 1999; 13:129-35. [PMID: 10441177 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1999.0302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Enhanced erythrocyte sequestration is one of the very few major adverse effects of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). IVIg contains high molecular weight IgG complexes ( approximately 300 kDa) which, in the presence of serum, mimic immune complexes by activating complement, binding to CR1 of red blood cells (RBC) (CD35) and mediating erythrophagocytosis. Four of seven patients undergoing IVIg therapy showed significant drops in haematocrit and haemoglobin that were not due to isoantibodies in the IVIg. Prior to treatment, patients' RBC carried IgG and complement (C') 3d that were not bound as immune complexes via CR1 (CD35). The patients whose RBC bound immune complex-like moieties and showed drops in haematocrit and haemoglobin subsequent to IVIg were young adults (22-35 years); older patients (50-69 years) showed no ill effects. In the presence of complement, RBC of young patients bound IVIg complexes in vitro while those of older patients did not. It is not the absolute levels of erythrocyte-associated IgG or C'3 fragments, neither pre- nor post-therapy, which are predictive of IVIg associated decreases in haematocrit and haemoglobin levels. Patient age and RBC inability to bind the IVIg immune complex-like moieties in vitro both appear to be predictors of resistance to sequestration after in vivo treatment with IVIg.
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- H Kessary-Shoham
- Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technicion, Haifa, Israel
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Shoham-Kessary H, Gershon H. Isoantibodies in Immunoglobulin for Intravenous Use May Cause Erythrocyte Sequestration. Vox Sang 1999. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1423-0410.1999.7710033.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Shoham-Kessary H, Naot Y, Gershon H. Immune complex-like moieties in immunoglobulin for intravenous use (i.v.Ig) bind complement and enhance phagocytosis of human erythrocytes. Clin Exp Immunol 1998; 113:77-84. [PMID: 9697987 PMCID: PMC1905024 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00624.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Treatment with i.v.Ig can, on rare occasions, lead to detrimental effects such as enhanced erythrocyte sequestration and an increase in serum immune complexes with inflammatory sequellae such as exacerbation of glomerular nephritis. In this study, i.v.Ig (Sandoglobin) was examined for complement binding moieties which resemble immune complexes and can mediate the binding of IgG and C'3b to human erythrocytes via CR1 and enhance erythrocyte susceptibility to sequestration. Sephacryl S-200 HR separated i.v.Ig into two fractions: monomeric IgG (74%) and larger complexes of the molecular weight of an IgG dimer or greater (> or = 300 kD) (26%). In the presence of complement, the 'dimers' bound to human erythrocytes, rendering them susceptible to phagocytosis in vitro. Removal of erythrocyte-specific isoantibodies from the i.v.Ig had no effect on 'dimer' binding to the erythrocytes. Monomeric IgG contained virtually no complement-activating, erythrocyte-binding activity. Erythrocyte binding of complement-bearing IgG 'dimers' and subsequent phagocytosis resembles the binding of complement-bearing immune complexes to erythrocyte CR1. Exposure to Factor I leads to the release of complement-bearing IgG 'dimers' from erythrocyte CR1 and to the abrogation of erythrophagocytosis. Binding of complement-bearing IgG 'dimers' to the erythrocyte is blocked by To5, a CR1-specific monoclonal antibody.
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- H Shoham-Kessary
- Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Kanto T, Hayashi N, Takehara T, Katayama K, Kato M, Akiyama M, Kasahara A, Fusamoto H, Kamada T. Low expression of erythrocyte complement receptor type 1 in chronic hepatitis C patients. J Med Virol 1996; 50:126-34. [PMID: 8915878 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199610)50:2<126::aid-jmv5>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Primate erythrocyte complement receptor type 1 (CR1) plays an essential role in complement-associated immune complex clearance by transporting complexes to macrophages in the liver and/or spleen. Antibody-bound hepatitis C virus, which consists of immune complexes, is observed in patients with chronic hepatitis C. The aim of this study was to clarify the pathophysiological roles of erythrocyte CR1 in hepatitis C virus-infected individuals. We quantified the expression of erythrocyte CR1 with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter system in 57 chronic hepatitis C and 37 chronic hepatitis B cases and 20 normal volunteers. Complement-bound immune complexes were quantified by means of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using anti-C1q and anti-C3d antibodies. Hepatitis C virus-infected patients showed lower erythrocyte CR1 and higher C3d immune complex levels than volunteers (P < 0.01 and P < 0.05, respectively). An inverse correlation was observed between the erythrocyte CR1 and C3d immune complex levels in hepatitis C virus infection (r = -0.300, P = 0.032). The erythrocyte CR1 levels in hepatitis C virus infection were lower in patients with severe liver inflammation, cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma than in those with mild inflammation, whereas the levels did not differ regardless of the disease stage in hepatitis B virus infection. These findings demonstrate that the expression of erythrocyte CR1 is related to immune complex quantity and the severity of liver disease in hepatitis C virus infection.
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- T Kanto
- First Department of Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan
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Jones DR, Scarsbrook AF, Imrie H, Booker D, Sokol RJ. Do plasma anti phospholipid antibodies in patients with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia correlate with reduced levels of erythrocyte complement receptor 1? Autoimmunity 1996; 23:45-51. [PMID: 8871761 DOI: 10.3109/08916939608995328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Anti phospholipid antibody (APA), of both IgG and IgM class, was assayed in plasma obtained from patients with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AHA) and active haemolysis. Although plasma APA was elevated in some AHA patients, when compared to a normal control population, there was no apparent correlation with levels of erythrocyte complement receptor 1 (RBC-membrane CR1) in this patient group. However, there appeared to be a correlation between RBC-membrane CR1 and plasma IgG APA in a subset of the AHA patients with low RBC-membrane CR1. The potential significance of this observation was complicated by the majority of these patients having a plasma APA within the normal range. These results suggest that the reported inverse correlation between APA and RBC-membrane CR1 may not be definitive.
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- D R Jones
- Department of Immunology, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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Albertini MC, Ghibelli L, Ricciotti R, Fumelli C, Canestrari F, Galli F, Rovidati S, Bonanno E, Fumelli P. Morphological alterations and increased resistance to hemolysis in t-butyl hydroperoxide incubated RBC from elderly subjects. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 1996; 22 Suppl 1:423-8. [PMID: 18653071 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4943(96)86976-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The response of human red blood cells (RBC) to oxidative stress has been studied with the aim to evaluate any difference in the behavior of cells from young and old subjects. Thus, RBC from 5 young (27 +/- 2 years) and 5 old (80 +/- 5 years) individuals have been treated with the organic peroxide t-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP). The two groups behaved differently: after 4 hrs of incubation in 0.5 mM TBHP, RBC from young donors showed a higher level of hemolysis; instead, RBC from old individuals showed abnormal morphologies, being absent in unstressed RBC, with constriction and budding, which could be identified as poikilocytosis. The same abnormal forms are found in patients with spectrin mutation, leading us to hypothesize that TBHP causes damage to the cytoskeletal spectrin. This suggests that poikilocytosis might be an early stage of red blood cell hemolysis because their presence is associated to a lower level of hemolysis.
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- M C Albertini
- Institute of Biochemistry G. Fornaini, Via Saffi, 2, I-61029 Urbino, Pesaro, Italy
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