Erythrocyte counts with the instrument compur m-100 tends to let you down in the very cases in which erythrocyte counts would be most useful.
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Eighteen male Sprague Dawley rats were divided into three groups. They were offered a semisynthetic casein diet containing either 1.2 mg Zn/kg dry matter (depletion group) or 100 mg Zn/kg dry matter (ad libitum and pair-fed control groups). At the beginning and on the 5th and 24th day of the experiment, blood was removed from a tail vein by incision to determine erythrocyte count and carbonic anhydrase activity. The zinc-depleted animals displayed a great increase in erythrocytes during the course of the experiment as compared to the ad libitum control animals. The erythrocyte counts of the pair-fed animals were also increased after 24 days on experiment, but remained significantly lower than those of the depleted animals. The activity of the carbonic anhydrase per ml blood was the same in all groups at the end of the experiment. When, however, the carbonic anhydrase activity was expressed per unit of erythrocytes, the zinc-deficient animals had a significantly lower enzyme activity than both the ad libitum and the pair-fed control rats.
With increasing age of the children and increasing hemoglobin, hematocrit and serum protein levels, the lead concentrations of the blood in the children dropped. By contrast, high lead concentrations in blood correlate with low MCV and high erythrocyte values. The possible causes are discussed.
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Fasciola hepatica releases large amounts of proline into the bile of its host. Significant increases in the levels of other amino acids in the bile also occur. The present investigation examines whether proline and these other amino acids may play a role in inducing the anemia that frequently accompanies fascioliasis. In experiments, rats were infused intra-abdominally for 2 weeks with 1 of 3 solutions: 20.0 mM proline in saline, a mixture of 8 amino acids (excluding proline) each at 2.0 mM in saline, or saline only. At the end of the experiments 2 cc of blood was removed from each rat, via cardiac puncture. The heparinized blood was used to count erythrocytes and reticulocytes, and to measure hematocrit and mean corpuscular volume (MCV). Analysis of variance disclosed highly significant differences in erythrocyte counts, MCV, and reticulocyte counts among the 5 groups. A Student-Newman-Keuls test indicated that the Proline and Infected groups were not different from each other (except for MCV, where proline's effect was more severe) and that both groups differed significantly from the Amino Acid group, the Saline group, and the Control group. Hence, it appears that infused proline can cause an anemia similar to that induced by Fasciola.
Venous blood samples were collected monthly from 60 male and 60 female Sinclair(S-1) miniature swine from 1 through 36 months of age. Hematologic parameters evaluated included: erythrocyte count, packed cell volume, hemoglobin concentration, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, leukocyte count and differential leukocyte counts. Mean erythrocyte count increased from 3 through 9 months of age and declined thereafter. Mean packed cell volume and hemoglobin concentration decreased from 1 to 3 months of age, increased from 3 through 10 months of age and remained stable thereafter. From 7 through 36 months of age, females had greater mean packed cell volume and hemoglobin concentration than did males. Mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin increased linearly from 3 through 24 months of age and remained stable thereafter with females having greater mean corpuscular volumes and mean corpuscular hemoglobins than did males. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration increased linearly from 1 through 30 months of age. Mean leukocyte count decreased from 1 through 9 months of age and remained stable thereafter. From 10 through 36 months of age, mean leukocyte count was greater for males than for females. From 6 through 24 months of age, mean per cent lymphocytes was greater for females than for males; whereas, mean per cent neutrophils was greater for males than for females.
Colisa fasciatus, a fresh water teleost, when exposed for 90 hrs to a sublethal concentration of 195 p.p.m. (0.87 of the 96 hrs LC50 value) cobalt elicited leucopenia due to reduction in the number of circulating small lymphocytes. The treatment also caused decline in blood clotting time with a concomitant increase in the abundance of circulating thrombocytes. No differences in total erythrocyte count, haematocrit, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and haemoglobin values were found between the control and treated fish. The hepatosomatic index of fish increased significantly after exposure to cobalt. Results are discussed in terms of fish's reaction to acute stress.
Possibilities and limits of the method for timing an intracranial hemorrhage by means of the HbA/HbF erythrocyte ratio are investigated in six newborns. The effect of labeling HbF erythrocyte containing newborn blood by transfusion and exchange transfusion of HbA erythrocyte containing donor blood as well as "self-labeling" after the first transfusion as a result of HbA--and HbF erythrocytes decaying at a different rate, is described. If a coagulum can be clearly allocated to the blood where it originates from, depends a) on the alteration of the HbA/HbF erythrocyte ratio by the above mentioned ways of labeling and b) on the size of the sample i.e. on the number of erythrocytes counted to determine the HbA/HbF erythrocyte ratio. The confidence limits of the HbA/HbF erythrocyte ratio for a given number of counted erythrocytes have been determined. It was taken into account whether the blood was labelled by a transfusion or by "self-labeling". The analysis of the period before, during and after the intracranial hemorrhage made a preliminary evaluation of etiological factors and some symptoms possible. The hypothesis that sodium bicarbonate dosages of 8 mEqu/kg/24 h are an important cause of intracranial hemorrhage has to be rejected on the grounds of this study's results.
A group of 27 canoeists from the national team and 35 subjects beginning training in a sports discipline were subjected to investigations for determination of glucose utilization by erythrocytes, and the level of lactic acid in these cells and in serum. Furthermore, erythrocyte count and haematocrit value were determined in them. Both groups performed submaximal and maximal work on cycle ergometer. In the trained sportsmen the erythrocyte count and haematocrit value were higher already before exercise. During the exercise the increase in these values, as well as the rise in erythrocyte and serum lactic acid levels were again greater than in untrained freshmen. This difference was caused by the fact that the trained sportsmen performed twice as much work. Glucose utilization by erythrocytes (in vitro) was greatest after maximal exercise in both groups. The differences observed between both groups became manifest during exercise with a greater rise in glucose utilization by the erythrocytes obtained from the trained group. Fifteen minutes after the exercise this utilization fell in both groups below the value obtained before exercise. During the same time erythrocyte count and haematocrit returned to their initial levels.
A study of erythrocyte count and size in Rana tigrina has been made over a period of two years. The erythrocyte count exhibits a wide range showing a month to month variation in both the sexes. An average count of 15,93,600 in females and 10,29,700 per mm3 in males is recorded. These values are appreciably high from March to July with a peak in May and June for males and females respectively. The starvation brings about a decrease in counts generally from 12th day onwards. The size of erythrocytes averages 20.7 X 13.4 micrometer in length and width. No difference in size was observed in respect of sex or season.
It was shown that erythrocytic inhibitor (G2-cheilon) acted both on the proliferating and on differentiated cells of the erythroid series of the mouse bone marrow. The effect of cheilon was expressbd as soon as 3 hours after its administration and lasted for from 8 to 48 hours, depending on the extent of cell differentiation. In case of a single cheilon administration, despite significant erythropoiesis disturbances, erythrocyte count determined 8 to 12 days later persists within the control level. Repeated administration of cheilon was accompanied by a fall of the erythrocyte count at later periods of the experiment.
Erythrocyte count, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume and reticulocyte counts were measured in 59 pairs of monozygotic (MZ) and 69 pairs of dizygotic (DZ) adult, Caucasian male twins. The means of MZ and DZ twins were not significantly different for any of the traits measured. Erythrocyte count and mean corpuscular volume had significant estimates of genetic variance (P less than 0.05).
One of the leading factors affecting the functional state of the red blood system is arterial hypoxemia. Under such conditions signs of polycythemia are known to appear. At the same time, changes in the quality characteristics of the blood develop in patients with congenital heart diseases (tetralogy of Fallot including). Therefore a study of the physical rehabilitation as a total functional index may describe the adaptation of the body to hypoxemia, the variants and stages of its development. For this purpose the red blood parameters were examined (the content of hemoglobin, the erythrocyte count and their diameter) and the tolerance of physical exercises was tested by ergometry. The data were analyzed with due regard of the age of the patients and the reduction of their capacity for work, as compared to the due level. Stage 1 reduction of the capacity for work was found in patients with high red blood parameters. In groups of patients with Stage 2, 3 and especially 4 reduction of working capacity the red blood indices were significantly reduced. A distinct correlation was revealed between the erythrocyte count and their diameter, on the one hand, and the capacity for work, on the other.
The degree of hemolysis was studied comparatively in intact and nephrectomized rats after the phenylhydrazine injection. In the nephrectomized animals hemolytic (phenylhydrazine) anemia was expressed by a lesser reduction of the total erythrocyte count, of the percentage of Cr51-labeled erythrocytes, and of the intensity of the reaction for hemosiderin in the organs and tissues. A lesser degree of erythrodieresis was found in the nephrectomized rats and after an acute unsubstituted blood loss. Blood perfusion through the kidney of anemic rats led to increase of the potassium concentration in the plasma perfusate, reduction of the electrophoretic mobility of erythrocytes, their resistance, hemolysis duration, and to decrease of albumin fractions with the mol wt of from 74 500 to 27 000 in the erythrocyte stroma.
9% of kidney allograft recipients were found to develop high hemoglobin concentrations and high hematocrit levels. This abnormality was found only in patients carrying their own diseased kidneys. The majority of graft recipients exhibit low normal erythrocyte counts, whereas the patient group described shows high normal values for red cells. It is suggested that erythropoietin secreted from ischemic regions of the patients' own kidneys may be responsible for the observed difference in erythrocyte counts. No adverse effects were noted clinically.