Eleginops maclovinus has been an important fishery resource in Chile since 1957. Caligus rogercresseyi is one of the most prevalent ectoparasite species found on E. maclovinus. Hematocrit, hemoglobin level, red blood cell count (RBC), white blood cell count (WBC), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) and differential ...

Red blood cell (RBC) fractions were studied after separation of whole blood by means of counterflow centrifugation, Percoll column (Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden), and a combination of both separation techniques. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) were measured in each fraction. From the res...

We have examined 20 SC patients on Percoll-Stractan continuous density gradients and find that they have an elevated mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). Reduction of the MCHC to normal values results in amelioration of four physiologically important blood abnormalities: decreased oxygen affinity, viscosity of deoxygenated erythrocyte suspensions, rate of sickling, and deoxygenatio...

In an effort to study the rheologic effects of small amounts of hemoglobin S (HbS) polymer in sickle red cells, we have used the ektacytometer, a laser diffraction couette viscometer, to measure sickle cell deformability as a function of oxygen tension. Sickle cell populations of defined intracellular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) were isolated using Stractan density gradients and were resusp...

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of high environmental temperature on the blood indices (mean corpuscular volume, MCV; mean corpuscular hemoglobin, MCH; mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, MCHC) of Thai Indigenous Chickens (TIC), Thai Indigenous Chickens Crossbred (TICC) and broilers (BC). One kilogram of male and female TIC, TICC and BC were maintained in an e...

A rationale for clinical trials of hydroxyurea (HU) treatment in sickle cell disease is that the agent increases red blood cell (RBC) fetal hemoglobin content. However, an additional effect of HU is to raise the mean corpuscular volume (MCV). To investigate the action of HU in a species that makes no electrophoretically distinguishable fetal hemoglobin, we treated dogs with the drug and compare...

In Pakistan the Siwalik region is exposed to ionizing radiation (IR) from uranium mineralization. The current research describes the impact of long-term low-dose terrestrial ionizing radiation exposure on the hematopoietic indices of the region’s inhabitants. Mean values of the selected complete blood count (CBC) parameters were calculated to examine low or high trend. A t-test was conducted on...

AIMS To search for laboratory evidence of hereditary spherocytosis (HS) among apparently healthy children with the chance finding of an isolated increase in hyperchromic red cells (cells with intracellular haemoglobin concentration > 410 g/litre). METHODS Blood and reticulocyte counts and Pink tests were performed on successive children found on routine counts to have > 4% hyperchromic red ce...