Figure 5. Summary of the key phenotypic changes in maturing human cord blood samples.

An overview of the key biochemical, biophysical and metabolic changes occurring in the subsets of circulating cord blood reticulocytes relative to RNA content as measured by thiazole orange. Our finding are also put into the context of the ‘R’ reticulocyte characterization (R1 = Immature reticulocytes, R2 = Mature reticulocytes and R3 = Normocytes). [23].