Adhesion relationships between human retinal capillary and bovine aortic endothelial cells.

Red cells from 20 patients with SCD were compared for their adhesion to both HRCECs and FBAECs in the absence (○) and in the presence of plasma (●). The solid line represents the linear-regression fit to the data, and the dotted lines represent the 99% confidence interval curves. The R and Pvalues for the overall relationship, which included both basal and plasma-induced adhesion, are presented in the figure. SimilarR and P values were also noted when the basal and plasma-induced adhesion ratios from these 2 cell systems were analyzed separately (R = 0.652, P < .002 for basal and R = 0.812, P < .000 02 for plasma-induced adhesion).