[Electrophoretic behavior of red blood cells from various species of aquatic vertebrates].
The electrophoretic behavior of several aquatic vertebrates species is reported in order to verify if fish cell membrane composition different from human one, can affect electrophoretic behavior of fish red blood cells. In fact it's known that the mobility of a particle under the influence of an electric current appears to depend entirely on the nature of the particle surface, and is independent of the size or shape or the nature of particle itself. Our experiment were performed on red blood cells of several aquatic vertebrate with a cylindrical electrophoresis chamber according to the method described by Bangham et al. (1958). Our results show that electrophoretic mobility and electrochemical potential are lower than values observed in human red blood cells, in all species examined, except one.
D000818:Animals; D004586:Electrophoresis; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005399:Fishes / Q000097:blood*; D013045:Species Specificity
Comportamento elettroforetico di globuli rossi di diverse specie di vertebrati acquatici.