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Decrease of calcium binding by the red blood cell membrane in spontaneously hypertensive rats and in essential hypertension

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Ca binding in the red blood cell (RBC) membrane of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and of patients with essential hypertension was studied. Under conditions of physiological concentration of free Ca in the incubation medium of RBC the outer part of the membrane binds 393±32 and 435±30 nmole of Ca per ml of RBC in rats and humans, respectively, without essential differences in the amount of Ca in hypertensive individuals as compared to the normotensive controls.

The membrane of red blood cell ghosts (RBCgh) at concentrations of free Ca corresponding to its intracellular concentration binds 4.28±0.39 and 3.53±0.15 nmole of Ca per mg of protein of RBCgh in rats and humans, respectively. This part of membrane-bound Ca pool (most probably related to the inner part of the red blood cell membrane) is reduced by 48% in SHR and by 28% in patients with essential hypertension as compared to normotensive controls.

It is suggested that the decrease of Ca binding ability of the RBC membrane in both types of hypertension studied may be a pattern of a more widespread cell membrane defect.

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  1. Central Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health of the USSR, Timoshenko av. 23, 121 359, Moscow, USSR

    Yu. V. Postnov (Professor, Director of Dept. of Exp. Pathol., Centr. Res. Lab.), S. N. Orlov (Cand. biol. Sc., Senior biophysist) & N. I. Pokudin (biophysist)

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Postnov, Y.V., Orlov, S.N. & Pokudin, N.I. Decrease of calcium binding by the red blood cell membrane in spontaneously hypertensive rats and in essential hypertension. Pflugers Arch. 379, 191–195 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00586947

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