[Sex differences in the electrokinetic properties of the erythrocytes in normal children and in iron-deficiency anemia].

The electrophoretic mobility of children blood erythrocytes in norm and with iron-deficiency anemia was studied. The age peculiarities and sex specificity of this index was revealed, demonstrated chiefly by dynamics of shape of its distribution curve reflecting a ratio of cell subpopulations with different electrokinetic potential. The state of anemia is accompanied with modification of histogram profiles of both individual and group cell mobility, with patterns of changes also depending on the child sex. The obtained data suggest that at children iron-deficiency anemia the structure or functional status of erythrocyte membrane are changed, but the pathological process does not eventually involve all the populations of circulating erythrocytes.