title: Pro-hemolytic effect of aldehydic products of lipid peroxidation.
abstract: In order to evaluate the pro-hemolytic action exerted by different classes of biogenic aldehydes, normal red cells obtained from human beings of both sexes were incubated at 37 degrees C under iso or hypo-osmotic conditions in the presence of hydroxyalkenals or alkanals, in a concentration compatible with those actually recovered during red cell lipid peroxidation. None of the tested aldehydes showed a direct hemolytic effect, i.e. red cell lysis in iso-osmotic conditions. Conversely, almost all assayed alkanals and hydroxyalkenals exhibited a pre-lytic damage of human erythrocytes, as detected in the red cells suspended in hypo-osmotic medium. The highest pro-hemolytic effect was displayed by hexanal, nonanal, 2-nonenal and 4-hydroxynonenal.
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006461:Hemolysis; D006801:Humans; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; C010463:n-hexanal; C027576:4-hydroxy-2-nonenal