title: Enhanced survival of sickle erythrocytes upon treatment with glyceraldehyde.
abstract: Glyceraldehyde has been demonstrated to be an antisickling agent in vitro. In the present investigation, chromium-51 red cell studies were used to investigate the life span in vivo of sickle erythrocytes after treatment with glyceraldehyde in vitro. The mean survival (T1/2) of control cells was 5.8 +/- 1.6 days, whereas cells treated with 10 mmol/L or 20 mmol/L glyceraldehyde survived 9.0 +/- 1.4 (P less than .05) and 11.3 +/- 0.8 (P less than .002) days, respectively. The extent of modification by glyceraldehyde was 0.4 to 1.0 lysine residue per hemoglobin tetramer. These studies demonstrate not only a prolongation of the life span of sickle erythrocytes by treatment with glyceraldehyde but also the absence of any deleterious effects that would be revealed by this study.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D004905:Erythrocyte Aging; D005260:Female; D005985:Glyceraldehyde / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006451:Hemoglobin, Sickle; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D006451:Hemoglobin, Sickle; D005985:Glyceraldehyde