Total Blood, Erythrocyte and Plasma Volumes in Muscular Dystrophic Mice.

Plasma volume (dye method) and hematocrit value were measured in normal and muscular dystrophic mice, and from these data total blood and erythrocyte volumes were calculated. These 2 groups of mice possessed almost identical total blood, erythrocyte and plasma volumes per 100 g of body weight, but the muscular dystrophic mice were 33% lighter than their littermate controls.