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. 1976 Jun 15;156(3):577–583. doi: 10.1042/bj1560577

Erythrocyte calcium metabolism. Calcium exchange in normal and sickle-cell-anaemia erythrocytes.

B F Cameron, P E Smariga
PMCID: PMC1163791  PMID: 949340

Abstract

Under exchange conditions (no net increase in calcium), erythrocytes incubated in isoosmotic phosphate-buffered saline have an exchangeable calcium pool comprising about 10% of the total erythrocyte calcium. This pool reaches exchange equilibrium, for either inward-directed or outward-directed transfer of the 45Ca-exchange label, with a half-time of about 20 min. The uptake of Ca2+ requires phosphate, even under hypo-osmotic conditions, where the calcium loading expected as the cells swell is obtained only when phosphate is present. The phosphate requirement is not due to Ca2+ transport as a phosphate salt. This exchangeable-calcium pool is also present in sickle-cell-anemia erythrocytes, and comprises a similar proportion of total cellular calcium.

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