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- Echinocyte (from the Gr**** word echinos, meaning 'hedgehog' or 'sea urchin'), in human biology and medicine, refers to a form of red blood cell that has...
- projections. A similar term is spur cells. Often they may be confused with echinocytes or schistocytes. Acanthocytes have co****, irregularly spaced, variably...
- blood cells. Acanthocytes or Spur/Spike cells Codocytes or Target cells Echinocytes and Burr cells Elliptocytes and Ovalocytes Spherocytes Stomatocytes or...
- smaller, more numerous, regularly irregular projections of echinocytes. Acanthocytes and echinocytes may arise from abnormalities of the cell membrane lipids...
- Tsz W.; Kuchel, Philip W. (2010). "Erythrocyte shape reversion from echinocytes to discocytes: Kinetics via fast-measurement NMR diffusion-diffraction"...
- affects the survival of red blood cells and causes them to deform into echinocytes on peripheral blood smears. Rh deficiency syndrome Rh deficiency syndrome...
- 2002). [5] G. Lim, M. Wortis, and R. Mukhopadhyay, Stomatocyte–discocyte–echinocyte sequence of the human red blood cell: Evidence for the bilayer–couple...
- Maxwell Wintrobe credited Bessis with coining the terms stomatocyte, echinocyte and discocyte. Bessis wrote that "The doctor who knows how to see can...
- cells, resulted in a rapid decline in cellular glutathione, formation of echinocytes and damage to the membrane skeleton. This resulted in a decrease in haematocrit...