ABSTRACT

In the following sections we tackle much more complicated real-life problems; namely, we present and analyze a realistic model of erythrocyte metabolism. The model is one that was developed for use in our day-to-day experimental work.H1-4L It has been used as an aid to experimental design and for the analysis of experimental data. In addition to providing an illustrative example of modelling complex systems it is hoped that the human erythrocyte model, and its associated enzyme kinetic equations, will be a useful catalogue of kinetic equations for those working in the area of metabolic biochemistry.