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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Chem. 2015 Jun;396(6-7):621–631. doi: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0292

Table 1.

Characteristics of the erythrocyte storage lesion.

Biochemical Structural
↓TP ↓membrane domain
↓2,3 diphosphoglycerate ↓deformability
↓pH ↑microparticles
↓nitric oxide ↑spherocytosis
↑potassium ↑hemolysis
↑free hemoglobin ↑band 3 oligomers
↑lactate ↑ceramide rafts
↑cytokines ↑external phospatidylserine
↑reactive oxygen species ↑aggregability
↑soluble lipids ↑osmotic fragility
↑complement proteins ↑protein cross-linking