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THE short survival of erythrocytes given by transfusion with stored donor blood is a problem of great current interest. The well-known steadily decreasing intensity of glycolysis in stored blood, despite excess of glucose, is easily explainable by a loss of adenosine triphosphate1. Gabrio et al. 1–3 have shown that addition of adenosine or inosine re-establishes the cell content of organic phosphate, increases the consumption of glucose, and thus the post-transfusion viability.
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OVERGAARD-HANSEN, K., JØRGENSEN, S. & PRÆTORIUS, E. Rephosphorylation produced by Inosine and Adenosine of Adenosine Monophosphate and Adenosine Diphosphate in Human Erythrocytes. Nature 179, 152–153 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179152a0
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