THE PERMEABILITY OF HUMAN RED CELLS TO CATIONS AFTER TREATMENT WITH RESORCINOL, n-BUTYL ALCOHOL, AND SIMILAR LYSINS

Abstract

The form of families of curves relating K loss to time in systems containing hypolytic concentrations of resorcinol and of n-butyl alcohol points to the human red cell's being slightly permeable to K and Na even when it is in isotonic NaCl (or plasma), and to the effect of the hypolytic concentrations of lysin being such as to increase this permeability.