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SOME years ago Macallum, Bradley and Adams1,2 discovered that the absorption spectrum of red corpuscles is entirely devoid of the y or Soret-band —the broad absorption band of hæmoglobin located between 400 and 430 ma—whereas the a-and (3-bands in the visible part of the spectrum remain unaltered. This band appears only after hæmolysis, when intraglobular hæmoglobin becomes free and passes into solution. This phenomenon has since been confirmed by Keilin and Hartree3.
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RUBINSTEIN, D., RAVIKOVICH, H. Absorption Spectrum of HÆMoglobin in Red Cells. Nature 158, 952–953 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158952a0
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