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Red blood cell osmotic fragility in the Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus maculatus

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Red cell osmotic fragility was studied in 50 blood samples of the fish Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill). High levels of mean corpuscular fragility were found and hypotheses are presented to explain this phenomenon.

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  1. M. S. Pitombeira

    Present address: Laboratório de Ciências do Mar da Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

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  1. Laboratório de Ciências do Mar da Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

    F. V. Barreto Gomes & J. M. Martins

  2. Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

    M. S. Pitombeira, F. V. Barreto Gomes & J. M. Martins

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Pitombeira, M.S., Barreto Gomes, F.V. & Martins, J.M. Red blood cell osmotic fragility in the Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus maculatus . Marine Biology 9, 250–252 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00351387

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