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The relationship of red cell enzymes to red cell life-span
1Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Blood Cells
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Red cells are replaced before they become senescent. It is probable that red cell destruction is controlled by a biologic clock, essentially independent of metabolism, rather than by metabolic failure. The appearance of neo-antigens on the external surface of the red cell could be this "clock."