Authors
Omar S. Hajjawi
Pages From
215
Pages To
227
Journal Name
American Journal of Life Sciences
Volume
1
Issue
5
Keywords
Anion transport;Na/K-ATPase; Osmotic pressure; Facilitated transport; K/CL cotransport
Abstract
Biochemists and cell biologists, who are interested in membranes, tend to regard the human red blood cell ambivalently. On one hand, red blood cells lack nuclei and the various intracellular organelles, yet that are highly specialized for a particular respiratory function. On the other hand, the human red blood cell presents an excellent model for membrane transport function.