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. 2012 Nov 10;9(2-3):94–103. doi: 10.1900/RDS.2012.9.94

Figure 5. Acute glucose effect on RBC deformability.

Figure 5

The figure shows the elongation ratio (ER) or the percentage from the total RBC population in accordance to ER of erythrocytes incubated in PBS supplemented with with 0 mM (white bars), 5 mM (grey bars), or 20 mM D-glucose (black bars) for 5 min at 37ºC. When indicated, cells were pretreated with 25 µM PMA. A. Median elongation ratio. B. Percentages of undeformable (ER ≤ 1.1) erythrocytes. C. Percentage of erythrocytes with decreased 1.1-1.5 ER deformability. D. Percentage of erythrocytes with median 1.5-2 ER deformability. E. Percentage of erythrocytes with increased 2-2.5 deformability. F. Percentage of erythrocytes with increased 2.5-3.0 deformability. Data are means of 4 to 13 independent experiments ± SE. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01 vs. correspondent data.