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The ability of erythrocytes from a marine teleost scorpionfish (S. porcus L.) to produce heat was investigated in vitro using a specially designed cell with a sensitive HEL-700 temperature sensor. It was shown that a suspension of washed red blood cells produced heat for a long time, while addition of extracellular ATP induced the phenomenon of a thermal spike. Presumably, the observed effect was due to exothermic reaction of ATP cleavage by ecto-ATPases located in the plasma membrane of fish erythrocytes.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Silkin, E.N. Silkina, A.Ya. Stolbov, 2014, published in Biofizika, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 1097–1100.
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Silkin, Y.A., Silkina, E.N. & Stolbov, A.Y. Analysis of thermal phenomena in erythrocytes from scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus L.). BIOPHYSICS 59, 890–893 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350914060220
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