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Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (from Ancient Greek erythros ' red ' and kytos ' hollow vessel ', with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, [1] erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O 2) to the body tissues ...
Spectrin is a cytoskeletal protein that lines the intracellular side of the plasma membrane in eukaryotic cells. Spectrin forms pentagonal or hexagonal arrangements, forming a scaffold and playing an important role in maintenance of plasma membrane integrity and cytoskeletal structure. [ 1 ]
English: This is the Teacher's Guide of the "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" program corresponding to Module 2 in Spanish. "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" is a professional development program for secondary school teachers led by the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Red blood cells or erythrocytes primarily carry oxygen and collect carbon dioxide through the use of hemoglobin. [2] Hemoglobin is an iron-containing protein that gives red blood cells their color and facilitates transportation of oxygen from the lungs to tissues and carbon dioxide from tissues to the lungs to be exhaled. [3]
4.7 to 6.1 million (male), 4.2 to 5.4 million (female) erythrocytes: [13] Red blood cells contain the blood's hemoglobin and distribute oxygen. Mature red blood cells lack a nucleus and organelles in mammals. The red blood cells (together with endothelial vessel cells and other cells) are also marked by glycoproteins that define the different ...
Hemoglobin A (HbA), also known as adult hemoglobin, hemoglobin A1 or α 2 β 2, is the most common human hemoglobin tetramer, accounting for over 97% of the total red blood cell hemoglobin. [1] Hemoglobin is an oxygen-binding protein, found in erythrocytes, which transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. [2]
n/a Ensembl ENSG00000170180 n/a UniProt P02724 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001308187 NM_001308190 NM_002099 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_001295116 NP_001295119 NP_002090 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 4: 144.11 – 144.14 Mb n/a PubMed search n/a Wikidata View/Edit Human Glycophorin A (MNS blood group), also known as GYPA, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the GYPA gene. GYPA has also recently been ...
Erythrocyte membrane protein band 4.2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPB42 gene. [5] [6] It is part of the red blood cell cytoskeleton. Erythrocyte membrane protein band 4.2 is an ATP-binding protein which may regulate the association of band 3 with ankyrin. It probably has a role in erythrocyte shape and mechanical property ...