STUDIES IN BLOOD PRESERVATION

3 June 1939

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 112 (22) , 2263-2271
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800220029009

Abstract

I. REPARTITION OF POTASSIUM IN CELLS AND PLASMA Dulière¹reported in 1931 a constant enrichment in the serum potassium of blood kept in contact with cells over a period of days. The manifestations of potassium poisoning have been well known since Blake's²observation in 1840. The symptoms in both cold³and warm⁴blooded animals have been reported. Such poisoning is not peculiar to the animal kingdom, for alterations in the concentration of potash in certain plant cells or in the mediums in which they live profoundly affect many of their normal reactions.⁵ Because of this, an investigation of the loss of potassium from cells and its increase in the plasma, as one of the abnormalities of stored blood, was felt necessary. An investigation seemed doubly imperative on account of the recent rapid rise of "blood banks," together with the growing conviction that blood kept too

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Determination of blood potassium
Biochemical Journal, 1937