Table 2.

Young’s modulus (MPa) determined for fresh and aged healthy and NDDs RBCs, mean values ± SD.

	Subject		RBCs
	Fresh	10-Day-Aged	20-Day-Aged	30-Day-Aged
Healthy	1.18 ± 0.5	1.56 ± 0.6	2.48 ± 0.8	3.10 ± 0.8
PD	1.67 ± 0.4 *	2.10 ± 0.5 *	2.59 ± 0.5	2.99 ± 0.9
ALS	1.82 ± 0.5 *	2.34 ± 0.4 *	2.69 ± 0.4 *	3.29 ± 0.3 *
AD	1.55 ± 0.5	2.18 ± 0.4 *	2.65 ± 0.5	3.28 ± 0.4 *

p values < 0.05 are denoted by *.