since mechanical characteristics peculiar to sickle cells could be induced in normal cells by incorporation of sickle hemoglobin , and since normal characteristics could be restored to sickle cells by incorporation of normal hemoglobin , we suggest that the interaction of sickle hemoglobin with the cell membrane is responsible for augmented static rigidity of oxygenated sickle erythrocytes .
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