[The effect of hypoxia on the fractionated composition of erythrocytes in rat peripheral blood].

The spectrum of distribution of the rat peripheral blood erythrocytes alters during adaptation to altitude-induced hypoxia as well as under the effects of increasing concentrations of the serum lipid constituents, arterial and venous plasma factors of animals initially adapted to hypoxia, and that of 2,3-DPG. The pattern of erythrocyte distribution in the periphery seems to depend on the micromedium conditions created by organ metabolic specifics, as well as on erythrocyte intracellular factors, there- by optimizing the system of oxygen supply to organs and tissues.