title: Red blood cell ghosts: hollow membranes or solid bodies?
abstract: Human red blood cell ghosts prepared by a widely used hypotonic lysis method are shown to be not hollow membranes but are solid bodies of distorted shapes.
mesh_terms: D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004913:Erythrocytes, Abnormal / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D007038:Hypotonic Solutions; D008854:Microscopy, Electron
chemical_list: D007038:Hypotonic Solutions