. 2018 Sep 18;19(9):2824. doi: 10.3390/ijms19092824

Table 1.

Measurements of reticulocytes in normal, saline-injected and ZnSO₄-injected PHZ-induced rats with an automatic hematology analyzer.

RBC Count (10⁶ Cell/mm³)
Total RBC	Mature Erythrocytes	Reticulocytes
		Total	Fraction *
		Total	LFR	MFR	HFR
(A) Normal rats (n = 6) ^†
6.91 ± 0.91 ^‡^,^a	6.37 ± 0.12 ^a	0.54 ± 0.12 ^a	0.22 ± 0.03 ^a	0.14 ± 0.04 ^a	0.18 ± 0.08 ^a
(B) Saline-injected PHZ-induced anemic rats (n = 6)
3.58 ± 0.95 ^b	2.30 ± 0.43 ^b	1.28 ± 0.43 ^b	0.28 ± 0.03 ^b	0.17 ± 0.01 ^a	0.83 ± 0.04 ^b
(C) 2.8 mg Zn/kg bd wt ZnSO₄-injected PHZ-induced anemic rats (n = 6)
6.08 ± 0.69 ^c	4.29 ± 0.42 ^c	1.79 ± 0.42 ^c	0.43 ± 0.05 ^c	0.29 ± 0.04 ^b	1.08 ± 0.06 ^c

* LFR, low-fluorescence reticulocytes; MFR, medium-fluorescence reticulocytes; HFR, high-fluorescence reticulocytes. ^† Number of rats; ^‡ Mean ± SD; a, b, c: significant differences (p < 0.05) among the (A), (B), and (C) groups.