I had today an experiment that we put 95% alcohol to the blood which made it completely transparent so hemolysis must have occurred. I started to think about the reasons.
I think that this is because alcohol dissolved the lipid membrane of cells outside of the cell. Alcohol molecule is also very small. I think that I can go through the bilayer too. So I started to think that the other possible reason was that alcohol went inside the cell so caused
- dissolution of the membrane from the inner side
- increase in the volume of the cell so bursting
What are the main reasons why Alcohol cause hemolysis to the red blood cell?
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