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TRANSFUSION MEDICINE AND HEMOTHERAPY
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 335-341Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000342524
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Double in vivo biotinylation; Erythrocyte aging; Erythrocyte removal; Mouse blood circulation
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- Depart of Science and Technology, Government of India
- CSIR
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We have recently developed a new technique to objectively identify erythrocyte cohorts of defined age in mouse blood. The technique (termed double in vivo biotinylation, DIB) involves an initial biotinylation of all erythrocytes in circulation, followed after a few days by a second biotinylation, at a lower density, that labels the biotin-negative erythrocytes that have entered since the first biotinylation. The proportions of biotin(high), biotin(low), and biotin(negative) erythrocytes are enumerated by flow cytometry. The DIB technique allows us to track age-related changes on erythrocyte cohorts (Protocol A), and to simultaneously identify very young and older erythrocyte populations in the blood (Protocol B). Using this technique, we have reexamined: i) the relationship between age and buoyant density of erythrocytes, ii) erythrocyte destruction through a random removal mechanism, and iii) the expression of phosphatidylserine on aging erythrocytes. We have also used the DIB technique to study age-related changes in the expression of various markers like CD47 and CD147 and green autofluorescence in aging erythrocyte populations.
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