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. 2016 Jun 10;11(6):e0156157. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156157

Fig 4. Part A of the Study.

Fig 4

Individual blood reticulocyte count per RBC (%). Results from analysis of 161 blood samples from transfused men (N = 11, Nr 1–17) in Panel A, and 93 samples from control men in Panel B (N = 7, Nr 9–19). All samples were taken in parallel during 22 weeks (Fig 1). Transfused subjects donated two units (900 mL) blood and were re-infused with the washed, cryopreserved RBC fraction at week 17 (Fig 1). Control subjects were sampled and tested at the same time intervals, except one hour before and after the RBC reinfusion. For reference, a dashed black line at 0.5% and 2% is suggested to be the individual upper and lower limits for indication of autologous blood doping [60].