Individual Osmotic Fragility Distribution: A New Parameter for Determination of the Osmotic Properties of Human Red Blood Cells

Table 1

Effect of near infrared radiation (NIR) on red blood cell osmotic properties, described by distribution parameters.

Haemolysis curve parameter	Control	NIR	P value
	mean ± SD	mean ± SD
Osmotic fragility (%)	0.39 ± 0.03	0.40 ± 0.03	0.78
Slope factor of haemolysis curve (%^−1)	−3.65 ± 0.68	−4.88 ± 0.92	0.000015
Half-width of the distribution (%)	0.214 ± 0.036	0.148 ± 0.049	0.000010

𝑛=8, values of P < 0.05 were considered significant.