51 worldwide leading experts in the field of erythrocyte research contributed to this first book on transport processes in red blood cells. It explains the latest findings on the basis of well-established principles, in an accessibly structured and carefully organized compilation.

1 Distribution and Movement of Membrane Lipids

2 Membrane Lipids and Proteins as a Basis of Red Cell Shape and its Alterations
3 Human Red Cell Shape and the Mechanical Characteristics of the Membrane
4 Passive Membrane Permeability for Ions and the Membrane Potential
5 Na+/K+ Pump
6 Ion Channels
7 The Swelling-Sensitive Osmolyte Channel
8 Na+-K+-2Cl- Cotransport
9 K+-Cl- Cotransport in Vertebrate Red Cells
10 The Band 3 Protein: Anion Exchanger and Anion-Proton Cotransporter
11 Band 3 Mediated Transport
12 Amino Acid Transport
13 Equilibrative Nucleoside Transport Proteins
14 Glucose Transport
15 Calcium Homeostasis in Normal and Abnormal Human Red Cells
16 Magnesium Transport
17 Trace Metal Transport
18 Monocarboxylate and other Organic Anion Transport
19 Water Permeability
20 Gas Transport
21 'The Hereditary Stomatocytosis and Allied Conditions': Inherited Disorders Na+ and K+ Transport
22 Metabolic Disorders
23 Sickle Cell Disease
24 The Membrane Physiology of the 'Malaria-Infected' Red Cell
25 Hypertension
26 Disorders of Band 3
27 Amino Acid Transport in Disease
28 Transgenic Models of Red Cell Disorders
29 Red Cell Ageing
30 Active and Passive Monovalent Ion Transport Association with Membrane Antigens in Sheep Red Cells: a Molecular Riddle
31 Comparative Physiology of Red Cell Membrane Transport.