Catecholamine deposition and erythrocyte structural transformation in functional disorders of the sympathetic adrenaline system
Mardar, G.I.
Fiziolohichnyi Zhurnal 47(1): 53-60
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 2522-9028 PMID: 11296557 Document Number: 539345
By means of ultra and cytochemical study the catecholamine inserts in erythrocytes look like dark lumps and beads the size and quantity of which being directly proportional to the sympathetic adrenaline system functional state. Under the conditions of catecholamine shortage the inserts reducing to fragments occurs and under catecholamine growth the increase in inserts size takes place. In both cases the erythrocyte structure disorder has been observed. Cytochemical method of catecholamine detection in erythrocytes also allows simultaneously to determine the erythrocyte morphological state.