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Section I. ? Red Cell Shape and Nomenclature.- Red Cell Shapes: An Illustrated Classification and Its Rationale.- Nomenclature of Red Cell Shapes. A Commentary.- Spiculed Erythrocytes after Splenectomy Acanthocytes or Non-specific Poikilocytes ?.- Section II. ? Discocyte-Echinocyte and Discocyte-Stomatocyte Transformations.- Erythrocyte Shape Alteration ?in vitr?: Relationship to Plasma and Cellular Factors. Abstract.- The Role of Lysolecithin Formed in Plasma on the Discocyte-echinocyte Transformation. A Commentary.- Red Cell Membrane Shape and Stability: Relation to Cell Lipid Renewal Pathways and Cell ATP.- Quantitative Study of Factors which Control Shape Transformations of Human Red Blood Cells of Constant Volume.- Calcium-pH Interactions in the Production of Shape Change in Erythrocytes.- Membrane Fragmentation and Ca++-membrane Interaction: Potential Mechanisms of Shape Change in the Senescent Red Cell.- Divalent Cation Content of Normal and ATP-depleted Erythrocytes and Erythrocyte Membranes.- Section III. ? Biophysical Studies and Membrane Models.- The Discocyte-echinocyte Transformation of the Human Red Cell: Deformability Characteristics.- Hemolysis, Induced by Pulsed Laser Irradiation, Transmitted along Rouleaux of Human Red Blood Cells.- Red Cell Biconcavity and Deformability. A Macromodel Based on Flow Chamber Observations.- A Simple Flow Chamber for Hydraulic Manipulation of Individual Cells.- Image Holograms of Red Single Blood Cell Discocyte-spheroechinocyte Transformations.- Image Processing Techniques in Relation to Studies of Red Cell Shape.- Section IV. ? Membrane Ultrastructure: Freeze-Cleave and Freeze-Etch Studies.- Membrane Ultrastructure of Normal, Sickled and Heinz-body Erythrocytes by Freeze-etching.- Pits in the Freeze-cleavage Plane of Normal Erythrocyte Membranes and Ultrastructure of Membrane Lesions in Immune Lysis.