CHANGES IN THE PERMEABILITY OF RED CORPUSCLES IN SHED BLOOD TO GLUCOSE

Abstract

Shed human corpuscles very rapidly become permeable to glucose after the addition of oxalate; rabbits'' corpuscles are more resistant: pigs'' are quite resistant. It is suggested that the small amt. of glucose appearing in human corpuscles immediately after drawing blood is the result of the manipulations, and not due to the presence of an appreciable amt. of glucose in the corpuscles in the normal living body.