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The existence of haemolytic anaemia in malaria indicates disturbances in red cell stability due to physical as well as metabolic stress attributable to the malarial parasite. As erythrocytic reduced glutathione (GSH) is involved in maintaining the integrity of red cells, the status of erythrocytic GSH was studied in 40 patients infected with Plasmodium vivax before and after therapy with chloroquine. 40 normal subjects, age- and sex-matched, were studied as controls. The level of erythrocytic GSH of malaria patients during infection and before therapy was significantly lower in comparison with controls (P less than 0.0005). Instability of GSH was recorded in 17 of 40 patients, while none of the controls showed such a defect. There was a progressive decrease in GSH level and stability of the host red cells with increasing parasitaemia. Normal values were obtained following therapy and cure of malaria indicating that the changes in GSH level and stability are induced by P. vivax. Alterations in the GSH metabolism may represent one of the factors contributing to the severity of anaemia in malaria due to P. vivax infection.
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PMID:Reduction in erythrocytic GSH level and stability in Plasmodium vivax malaria. 332 36

Basic red cell ferritin (RCF) content reflects the rate of iron uptake by marrow erythroid cells in patients with anaemia due to chronic inflammation which are sometimes also associated with metabolic disorders of the erythrocytes. For 29 patients with active inflammatic states of chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and microcytic (mean corpuscular volume up to 80fl) or normocytic (MCV 80-95fl) anaemia respectively, the mean RCF content, irrespective of plasma ferritin levels, was determined using a recently established ELISA test. Red cell intermediates (ATP, GSH, 2.3 DP.G) were measured using conventional methods. The results revealed decreased RCF levels (2.8 +/- 1.5 ag/RBC) in 12 patients with RA and normal values (8.8 +/- 4.7 ag/RBC) in 17 patients which obviously did not correlate with the degree of the anaemia. The extent and pattern of the intermediates of RBC did not significantly vary from normal values. Thus, ATP, GSH and 2.3 DPT levels of RBC were only slightly increased up to 10%, especially in those patients with higher anaemic degrees. The findings of our study suggest that conventional indices for iron metabolic disorder in anaemic patients with chronic inflammatic disease should include peripheral microcytosis, transferrin saturation, and RCF content but could neglect plasma ferritin concentrations. Concerning the RBC metabolism this study did not disclose any further influences on iron metabolism parameters due to changes of mean cell age in patients with RA. Specific alterations which might hence produce additional functional disturbances of the erythrocytes in the peripheral microcirculation thus leading further to tissue cell damages in RA could be excluded as well.
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PMID:Red cell metabolism and ferritin levels in iron deficiency anaemia. 359 1

The biochemical properties of red cells from normal sheep and sheep with three types of red cell glutathione (GSH)-deficiency were compared. One deficiency was due to an impaired transport system for amino acids (lesion 1), one was the result of a diminished activity of gamma-glutamyl cysteine synthetase (GC-S) (lesion 2) and the third was a combined deficiency produced by selective breeding to give animals with both lesions 1 and 2. Under normal husbandry conditions no clinical symptoms were apparent in sheep with lesion 2, but red cells from sheep with lesion 1 and lesions 1 + 2 showed an increased osmotic fragility, a greater tendency to form Heinz bodies and a shorter potential life span than normal. These deficiencies were not found in tissues other than blood. Normal and GSH-deficient red cells had the expected low concentrations of 5-oxoproline. The effects of the toxic agents phenylhydrazine, s-methylcysteine sulphoxide and nitrite in vivo were measured in sheep of the different types. GSH-deficient sheep responded earlier and more dramatically than normal sheep, showing greater methaemoglobin formation, and for phenylhydrazine and s-methylcysteine sulphoxide, more severe anaemia. Sheep with the combined lesions were in general the most susceptible, but even they had the ability to recover from moderately severe oxidative challenge.
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PMID:Red cell glutathione deficiency: clinical and biochemical investigations using sheep as an experimental model system. 611 41

In 11 patients on CAPD with persisting anemia the survival of red cells labelled with 51Cr, red cell mass and the levels of several enzymes within red cells were measured. 51Cr red cell survival was shortened in 9/11 (mean +/- SD:20.0 +/- 4.9 days) and correlated with red cell mass, i.e. with the degree of anemia (r = 0.79, P less than 0.01). Determinations of the levels of enzymes of the hexose monophosphate shunt and the glycolytic pathway revealed no obvious defects in red cell metabolism. The level of hexokinase (HK) was normal whereas the activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGD), glutathione reductase (GR) and pyruvate kinase (PK) as well as reduced glutathione (GSH) were increased significantly. CAPD did not eliminate the hemolytic component of anemia in the majority of these patients.
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PMID:Red cell survival and red cell enzymes in patients on continuous peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). 685 Dec 63

1. The effect of experimental anaemia on red cell GSH and enzyme activities of GSH-Px, GSSG-R and G6PD was investigated in guinea-pig and rabbit. 2. The anaemia was induced by injection of PHH in guinea-pig and rabbit and also by bleeding in guinea-pig. 3. Red cell GSH increased from 115.5 to 141.8 mg/dl RBC in the guinea-pig and from 108.5 to 133.5 mg/dl RBC in the rabbit during anaemia. 4. There were significant rises in the level of all the three enzymes activities in both the species of animals. However, the changes in rabbit were more pronounced than in the guinea-pig.
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PMID:Effect of experimental anaemia on red cell GSH and enzyme activities in guinea-pig and rabbit. 685 86

Six enzymes: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx), catalase and superoxide dismutase (SOD), and three metabolites: 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (DPG), adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and reduced glutathione (GSH), were measured in the red blood cells of cattle during experimental anaemia. There was a significant rise in the mean levels of DPG (from 0.85 to 1.69 mumol/gHb) and ATP (from 2.16 to 3.25 mumol/gHb) in the early phase of recovery. Enzyme activities also increased during the early recovery period.
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PMID:Effect of anaemia on red cell metabolism in cattle. 688 98

Patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) were examined as well as patients with active lymphoma with low serum iron (SI) and anemia prior to treatment. Increased content of reduced glutathione (GSH) was found in the patients with IDA as well as enhanced activity of PBG-S in erythocytes, in parallel with the decreased SI and saturation rate of transferrins (SRT) and enhanced total iron-binding capacity (TIBC) in serum. In lymphoma patients a normal GSH content is found as well as normal PBG-S activity in erythocytes, low content of iron, SRT level and decreased TIBC in serum. The connection of SH groups with the level of serum iron is discussed.
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PMID:[Reduced glutathione and porphobilinogen synthase activity in the erythrocytes of anemic patients with low serum iron]. 714 24

Reduced and oxidized glutathione and pyridine coenzymes, glutathione-related enzymes and Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn-SOD) were investigated in the RBC of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and in age- and sex-matched controls. The effects of hemodialysis (HD) were also studied. A defective RBC redox state was shown in the CRF group based on a decreased GSH/GSSG ratio and NADPH levels. Increased activities of glutathione transferase (GSH-S-T) and Cu,Zn-SOD were observed before HD. Dialysis apparently restores the levels of antioxidant enzymes and at the same time strongly affects the redox state. Thus we can speculate that HD can generate severe redox impairment inducing damage in RBC and plasma antioxidant enzymes. Increased erythrocyte GSSG and GSM-S-T levels coupled with a reduced hexose monophosphate shunt (HMPS) function may be useful indexes of oxidative stress in uremic anemia.
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PMID:Erythrocyte redox state in uremic anemia: effects of hemodialysis and relevance of glutathione metabolism. 797 16

In this study, activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (CAT) enzymes were determined in the erythrocytes from patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and from healthy subjects. In the conservative drug management group and intermittent ambulatory peritoneal dialysis group, CAT activity was lower than in the control group. However, SOD and GSH-Px activities of these groups were not statistically different from the control values. In the continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis group and the hemodialysis group, SOD, GSH-Px and CAT activities were lower than control values. In the patient groups, correlation coefficients between the enzyme activities were also found to be different from the control values. Results suggested that enzymatic antioxidant defense mechanisms were suppressed in the erythrocytes from the patients with CRF, in particular in the erythrocytes from those who were under hemodialysis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis management. It is proposed that reduced antioxidant defense mechanisms in the erythrocytes is one of the important factors leading to peroxidation in the membrane lipid structure of the erythrocytes and thereby to hemolysis and anemia in the patients with CRF.
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PMID:Reduced erythrocyte defense mechanisms against free radical toxicity in patients with chronic renal failure. 810 58

Chronic exposure of adult rats to dietary intake of cadmium (15 mg CdCl2/day/kg for 30 days) leads to development of anemia and thrombocytosis. Anemia is characterized by significant reticulocytosis (13.1 +/- 1.0%), anysocytosis, poikilocytosis, iron deficiency and marked alterations of antioxidant and metabolic status of red blood cells. Activities of SOD, catalase, GPx and GR were significantly increased in red blood cells of cadmium-treated rats. In treated animals cadmium induced an increase of red cell reduced and oxidized glutathione with no changes of GSSG/GSH ratio. However, significant reduction of lipid peroxidation was found. Plasma levels of tocopherol and ascorbate, as well as activity of glutathione-S-transferase, were all significantly increased in cadmium-treated rats. The energy metabolism of red blood cells was deeply altered in cadmium-treated rats. The levels of ATP, ADP, AMP and TAN were significantly increased while ATP/ADP ratio and adenylate energy charge (AEC) were significantly reduced. The level of 2,3-BPG was somewhat lower, but 2,3-BPG/Hb ratio was considerably higher, in red blood cells of cadmium-treated rats.
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PMID:Cadmium-induced changes of antioxidant and metabolic status in red blood cells of rats: in vivo effects. 837 Apr 23


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