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ALTHOUGH Loehr et al.1 described in 1959 that adenosine triphosphate content (ATP) in erythrocytes decreased gradually during their life-span of 120 days on the average in blood vessels and suggested that the drop of the ATP-level caused destruction of erythrocytes in vivo, no concrete evidence for this theory has yet been presented.
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NAKAO, K., WADA, T., KAMIYAMA, T. et al. A Direct Relationship between Adenosine Triphosphate-level and in vivo Viability of Erythrocytes. Nature 194, 877–878 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194877a0
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