title: The relationship of red cell enzymes to red cell life-span.
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."
mesh_terms: D001683:Biological Clocks; D004905:Erythrocyte Aging; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans