HEMOLYSIS OF CHICKEN BLOOD

1. The time-dilution curves are given for the hemolytic action of saponin, sodium taurocholate, and sodium oleate on nucleated chicken erythrocytes. 2. Saponin and sodium taurocholate cause hemolysis but leave the nuclei and ghosts in suspension, thereby making the end-point of hemolysis more arbitrary than the clear end-point for non-nucleated cell hemolysis. 3. The curves of hemolysis by saponin and taurocholate are shown to be of the same nature as are found in the hemolysis of non-nucleated cells. 4. Sodium oleate causes first hemolysis and then, in the stronger solutions, causes karyolysis. Two pairs of values for kappa and c = infinity are thus obtainable for the same reaction, one pair for the destruction of corpuscular membrane, the other pair for the destruction of the nucleus. 5. Viscosity changes are found in the lysin-cell system with strong concentrations of sodium taurocholate and sodium oleate. Time-viscosity curves are given for these changes. 6. Microscopically, the action of these lysins on the nucleated chicken red cell appears to be similar to their action on the non-nucleated erythrocytes.