Hereditary red cell membrane defects: diagnostic and clinical aspects.

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The plasma membrane of the erythrocyte accounts for all of this cell’s antigenic, transport, and mechanical characteristics, particularly its ability to undergo large passive deformations during repeated passage through the narrow capillaries of the microvasculature, throughout its 120-day life span. The determinant of normal membrane cohesion is the system of “vertical” linkages between the phospholipid bilayer...

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