Red Cell Membrane Transport in Health and Disease

The red cell has been a focus for scientific and medical investigation since the ear­ liest times. A higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate was associated with diseases (usually pyrexias) before the thermometer was invented. Furthermore, ever since the early observers Swammerdam and Leeuvenhoek saw discrete corpuscles in samples of blood using the first microscopes, there has been a significant sci...