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WHEN suspensions of many types of mammalian red cells in saline media are examined between a glass slide and coverslip, the cells change their shape from biconcave disks, through a stage of crenation, to spheres1. This change is associated with the removal or inactivation of an anti-sphering factor normally present in plasma albumin2.
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BARER, R., GAFFNEY, F. An Erythrocyte Sphering Factor in Rat and Mouse Plasma. Nature 177, 277–278 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177277a0
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