title: Fatty acid composition of erythrocytes in hereditary spherocytosis.
abstract: The fatty acid distribution of the four major phospholipids has been determined in the erythrocytes of five patients with hereditary spherocytosis and in five control subjects. In contrast to a report by other workers, we are unable to confirm their findings of a defect in fatty acid chain lengthening activity leading to disappearance of long chain fatty acid conjugates of more than 20 carbon atoms in some of the phospholipid fractions.
mesh_terms: D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000097:blood; D013103:Spherocytosis, Hereditary / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D010743:Phospholipids