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  • Title: Microcythemia from anemic hypoxia and normal erythropoiesis in the newt.
    Author: Frangioni G, Borgioli G, Martini R.
    Journal: J Exp Zool; 1987 Nov; 244(2):183-6. PubMed ID: 3430118.
    Abstract:
    Specimens of the newt, Triturus cristatus carnifex (Laurenti), rendered totally anemic, restore erythron by cyclic waves of erythropoietic activity that alternate with intervals of stasis. Hemolysis is obtained by administering 25 mg/liter of acetylphenylhydrazine in the breeding water for 36 h. The first cycle of erythropoietic activity produces microcytes, which have completely differentiated by 8 weeks after treatment. However, if the animals are raised in a hyperbaric chamber at a pressure of 1.5 atmospheres, in order to compensate for hypoxia, normocytes are produced. In both cases the hematocrit and hematic concentration of hemoglobin reach analogous values, so microcythemia appears to be the only effect of hypoxia. The hemoglobin, hematocrit values, and normocyte counts in hyperbaric animals are about one-half those of the controls newts. These data, together with those on the life span of red blood cells (RBC) and time span between two successive erythropoietic cycles (2 months and 1 month, respectively), indicate that the newts normally keep only two sets (one new, one old) of RBC in circulation, whose approximate parameters can be defined as RBC count: 60,000/mm3, hematocrit: 17%, and hemoglobin: 5.4 g/100 ml.
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