The effects of parabiotic union with a normal partner on the blood tissue of the b/b rat suffering from an inheritable anemia.
The parabiotic union of a b/b rat, suffering from a red blood cell anemia, with a normal partner will restore to normal the functioning of this type of blood cell. The effect of parabiotic union is evident for several weeks following the separation of the parabiotic partners. It would be logical to conclude that the normal partner supplies a factor absent in the anemic animal needed for normal functioning of the red cell.
D000740:Anemia / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D000818:Animals; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000502:physiology; D010227:Parabiosis; D051381:Rats