Unit Objectives - 1

Reading assignment:

Pages 99 - 104

Unit objectives:

1. List the red blood cell processes that require energy.

2. Discuss the Embden-Meyerhof anaerobic glycolytic pathway in erythrocytes to include ATP production and consumption.

3. Identify the enzyme deficiencies in the EMP responsible for most cases of hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia

4. Identify the glycolytic enzyme involved in NADH-linked methemoglobin reducatase.