Abstract
Measurements of the electrical mobility of washed rabbit red cells and of ghosts produced by hypotonic solutions, freezing-and-thawing, chloroform, and saponin were made in the Abramson horizontal microelectrophoresis cell. These different forms of lysis, which corresponds to a variety of degrees of injury to the red cell, are unaccompanied by any change in electrical mobility. These observations are discussed from the standpoint of the possible structure of the cell membrane and the action of lysins upon it.
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