Bertil Glader

Publication Details

• Red blood cell size and glycolytic enzyme activity: relationship to number of intramedullary cell divisions.

  Glader BE, McCrimmons D, Müller-Soyano A, Platt O. Pediatr Res. 1978; 12 (4 Pt 1): 308-9

  In order to assess how the number of cell divisions influences the red blood cell (RBC) content of proteins other than hemoglobin, we measured the activity of two age-independent glycolytic enzymes in macrocytic, normal, and microcytic RBCs. The enzymes measured were phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH). In macrocytes, both PGK and LDH activity/10(10) RBCs were increased 1.6-fold over normal RBCs. In microcytes, however, the activity of these enzymes was identical to that seen in normal RBCs.

  PubMedID: 652413