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The red blood cells represent the simplest animal cells which, particularly for membrane transport studies, possess some highly attractive features. This is especially true of the mammalian erythrocytes which have no nucleus and no defined organelles so that their interior can be considered as a single compartment. Their plasma membrane can be easily prepared practically pure of any interfering protein and, moreover, can be resealed by incubation in an isotonic or slightly hypertonic medium (Gárdos, 1954; Dodge et al., 1963) so that the reconstituted ghosts serve as fine models for transport of solutes both inward and outward.
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Kotyk, A., Janáček, K. (1975). Erythrocytes. In: Cell Membrane Transport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4413-1_19
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