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PubMed2006

Reticulocyte count, mean reticulocyte volume, immature reticulocyte fraction, and mean sphered cell volume in elite athletes: reference values and comparison with the general population.

BACKGROUND: The role of measurement of reticulocytes and their parameters is growing in sports medicine. The use of reticulocyte counts in protocols for evaluating and screening for the suspected abuse of hormones that stimulate the bone marrow is an example. Reticulocytes are also important for evaluation of the performance and general health status of athletes, especially for monitoring therapies and diets. The current availability of fully automated haematological systems that can measure reticulocyte numbers and characteristics (volume, density) increases the potential use of these parameters in laboratory and sports medicine. Few studies have considered the application of these parameters in athletes and a lack of specific reference ranges means that their valid clinical use is difficult. METHODS: Using a Coulter LH700 instrument, we measured reticulocyte count (Retics), mean reticulocyte volume (MRV), immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF), and mean sphered cell volume (MSCV) in 106 male professional elite athletes (football and rugby players and skiers). Reference intervals for the athletes were compared with the intervals found for a control group of 73 age-matched males. RESULTS: We calculated the following reference intervals: 0.30-1.54% for Retics, 93.1-114.8 fL for MRV, 0.18-0.39% for IRF, and 76.8-94.5 fL for MSCV. CONCLUSIONS: No statistically significant differences were observed for Retics, MRV, IRF, and MSCV between elite athletes and controls. Significant differences were observed for haemoglobin (Hb), erythrocytes, haematocrit (Ht), and mean corpuscular volume. Moreover, no statistical differences were observed among different sports, whereas differences were remarked in football and rugby players between the samples drawn before the start of competitive season and the samples drawn during the season, demonstrating that reticulocyte counts and parameters are useful for monitoring sportsmen.

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PubMedDate not supplied

[Cord blood reticulocytes and reticulocyte subtypes in normal and complicated pregnancy].

Reticulocyte analysis using flow cytometry increases the precision of reticulocyte enumeration and can evaluate the maturation of reticulocytes. Reticulocytes count and their subtypes may reflect function of hematopoesis, especially during hypoxia. This study was aimed to establish reticulocyte count and reticulocyte maturation profile in cord blood during normal pregnancy and pregnancy complicated by chronic intrauterine hypoxia. For this purpose we analysed 233 cord blood specimens derived from uneventful pregnancy and 58 cord blood specimens from complicated pregnancy. The gestational age ranged from 26 to 42 weeks. The following measurements were obtained (mean +/- standard deviation): reticulocyte absolute count - 268 +/- 63 10(9)/l, reticulocyte percentage - 6.4 +/- 1.5; high fluorescence reticulocyte HFR - 11.3 +/- 3.8%; medium reticulocyte fraction MFR - 18.1 +/- 4.7%; low reticulocyte fraction LFR - 70.7 +/- 7%; immature reticulocyte fraction IFR - 29.3 +/- 7%. The percentage values of reticulocytes decreased in cord blood according to gestational age increase, but maturation subpopulations did not change significantly. Reticulocyte fractions in normal pregnancy were different compared to complicated pregnancy.

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PubMed1998

Within-subject biological variation of reticulocytes and reticulocyte-derived parameters.

Automation of reticulocyte counting has decreased the analytical imprecision of this parameter. This has made it possible to use the number of reticulocytes and its derived parameters (reticulocyte maturity and reticulocyte cell indices) in new diagnostic and monitoring situations. For rational use of these parameters, it is important to have knowledge of their biological variability. The biological variability of reticulocytes and its derived parameters was studied in 13 healthy people during a period of 7 wk on 2 different instruments. The within-subject coefficient of variation for the reticulocyte count was about 11%, for the mean reticulocyte volume, mean reticulocyte haemoglobin content and mean reticulocyte haemoglobin concentration it was between 1 and 2%, whereas the coefficient of variations for the subpopulations of reticulocytes with different maturity varied depending on the method used for the measurements. The critical difference, that is the change in a result making it significantly different from the previous result, was about 35% for the reticulocyte count and 5-8% for the reticulocyte cell indices, making these indices excellent to follow changes in erythropoiesis. With a possible exception for the mean reticulocyte volume, the within-subject variation was small compared to the between-subject variation.

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PubMed1994

Do the reticulocyte maturation fractions and bone marrow reticulocyte count further help the classification of anemias?

BACKGROUND: Reticulocyte count plays a major role in anemic evaluation. The conventional method done by the manual supravital staining cannot subclassify the group of less than 2% of corrected reticulocyte count. The newly-developed flow cytometer provides different maturation fractions by measuring its fluorescent intensity. The reticulocytes are believed to shift to the circulation from the bone marrow earlier in more severe anemia. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of reticulocyte maturation fractions and bone marrow reticulocyte in anemia classification. METHODS: By using a fully automated counter, the roles of the reticulocyte with maturation and their shifting from bone marrow were evaluated in anemias. Different groups of subjects (243 in total) including aplastic, nutritional, and infiltrative anemias and anemia due to excess destruction and blood loss were studied. Each subject had bone marrow examination for morphologic diagnosis and reticulocyte evaluation. RESULTS: Both the absolute count and the maturation fractions of reticulocytes showed significant difference among marrow infiltration, aplastic anemia, and hemolytic anemia. Both the absolute reticulocyte count and less mature fractions were lowest in aplastic group. The marrow reticulocyte counts and shift ratio to circulating blood added little benefit in the classification of anemias. CONCLUSIONS: The automated reticulocyte count with maturation fractions helps classify anemias, particularly for those with low reticulocyte count by the manual method.

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PubMed1985

Relationship of reticulocyte age to polychromasia, shift cells, and shift reticulocytes.

Polychromatophilic erythrocytes on Wright-stained blood smears represent young reticulocytes. Ratios of polychromatophilic cells to total reticulocyte counts have been used to estimate marrow response to erythropoietin stimulation. These ratios, however, require both accurate counts of polychromatophilic cells on Wright-stained blood smears and reticulocytes on supravitally stained blood smears. Data from this study indicated that reticulocytes of Heilmeyer groups I, II, and III best represent polychromatophilic cells. Group III reticulocytes, however, were found in normal circulation and were difficult to distinguish from group IV reticulocytes. Groups I and II were not found in normal circulation and were easily identified on routine reticulocyte preparations. The term "shift reticulocyte" is proposed for reticulocytes of groups I and II only. The present study suggests that the "shift reticulocyte count," expressed as percent of 100 reticulocytes, is a more useful indicator of marrow response to anemia than total reticulocyte counts.

Erythrocyte Aging↗

PubMed1994

Automated reticulocyte counting and measurement of reticulocyte cellular indices. Evaluation of the Miles H*3 blood analyzer.

This study evaluated reticulocyte counting and measurement of reticulocyte cellular indices with the Miles H*3 blood analyzer, a new instrument that combines the Technicon/Miles technology for blood cells counting with a staining technique allowing counting of reticulocytes, quantification of staining intensity and measurement of reticulocyte cellular indices. Reticulocyte counts obtained with the Miles H*3 analyzer were compared with those obtained by manual counting, flow cytometry (thiazole orange method) and by the Sysmex R-3000 (Baxter Diagnostics) reticulocyte analyzer. Reticulocyte counting with the Miles H*3 showed excellent precision, and linearity in the range tested (1.1-49% and 1-72% reticulocytes, respectively, with two different protocols) with no significant carryover. Reticulocyte counts were stable after storing blood samples for 72 hours at 4 degrees C. Comparison of the four different methods, showed an acceptable intraclass correlation between Miles H*3 and Sysmex R-3000 (intraclass correlation coefficient, [ri] = .952), Miles H*3 and flow cytometry (ri = .922), and Sysmex R-3000 and flow cytometry (ri = .938). There was no satisfactory correlation between any of the three automated methods and the values obtained with manual counting of reticulocytes (ri = .538-.755), consistent with the well known imprecision of the manual technique. For a group of normal pediatric subjects, age 1-10, we obtained the following values (+/- SD) of reticulocyte indices: mean corpuscular volume 97.6 +/- 4.7 fL; cell hemoglobin concentration mean 28.2 +/- 1.4 g/dL; cell hemoglobin content 26.7 +/- 1.6 pg. We determined the direct cost, including depreciation, of the manual and instrumental methods. Cost/test varied from $1.61 for manual method to $6.03 for the Sysmex R-3000. Cost/test for flow cytometry and Miles H*3 were $3.34 and $3.49, respectively.

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PubMed1992

[The correlation between hematopoietic status of the bone marrow and peripheral or marrow reticulocyte classification by using the automated reticulocyte analyzer Sysmex R-3000].

In this study peripheral and marrow reticulocytes were counted by using the automated reticulocyte analyzer Sysmex R-3000 with the quick and accurate function of reticulocyte classification dependent on reticulocyte maturation. The correlation of reticulocyte count of the R-3000 to that of visual reticulocyte counting method was r = 0.926, y = 0.88x + 0.305 and r = 0.933, y = 1.32x + 0.328 for peripheral blood and bone marrow, respectively. The hematopoietic status of the bone marrow was reflected in peripheral reticulocytes better than in leukocytes or platelets. Moreover, at recovery stage from bone marrow suppression after chemotherapy, the ratio of immature type (HFR fraction) in peripheral reticulocytes increased to precede in several days increasing total reticulocytes. The relative reticulocyte counts in bone marrow was about 3 times higher than peripheral blood to be drawn at the same time higher and the patients suffering from megaloblastic anemia, MDS or DIC tended to have a much higher reticulocyte count in bone marrow than in peripheral blood.

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PubMed2001

Reticulocyte subpopulations and reticulocyte maturity index (RMI) rise as body iron status falls.

To investigate the influence of body iron status on reticulocyte subpopulations and reticulocyte maturity index (RMI), we measured serum iron markers, fluorescent intensity of reticulocytes, and serum transferrin receptor (sTfR) concentrations in 374 females aged 14-19 years. Reticulocyte subpopulations were analyzed by flow cytometry, and sTfR concentration was measured by enzyme immunoassay. There were no significant differences in the values of reticulocyte subpopulations and RMI between ferritin alone-depleted group and healthy controls. However, middle- and high-fluorescence reticulocytes and RMI were significantly higher in both the serum iron- and serum ferritin-depleted groups than in the ferritin alone-depleted group. Middle-fluorescence reticulocytes and RMI increased gradually as the body iron store was depleted and were 3.4- and 3.6-fold higher, respectively, than normal controls, when the subjects attained a frank iron-deficiency anemia. There were no significant changes in the values of red blood cells or total reticulocyte counts during iron-depleted states. The mean value of sTfR (3.98 mg/l) in the subjects with RMI > or = 1.5% was significantly higher than that (2.26 mg/l) in the subjects with RMI < 1.5% (P < 0.01). The sTfR concentration correlated significantly with RMI (r = 0.61, P < 0.01) and middle-fluorescence reticulocytes (r = 0.59, P < 0.01). In short, body iron depletion induces elevation of immature reticulocyte fractions and RMI.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2006

Preferential invasion of reticulocytes during late-stage Plasmodium berghei infection accounts for reduced circulating reticulocyte levels.

Insufficient circulating reticulocytes have been observed during severe malarial anaemia in both human and murine infection, and are often attributed to reduced production of red cell precursors. However, a number of Plasmodium species display a preference for invading reticulocytes rather than erythrocytes. Thus, the reduction in circulating reticulocyte numbers may arise as a result both of increased parasitization and lysis of reticulocytes, as well as decreased production. We have analysed both circulating reticulocyte numbers and the percentage of infected reticulocytes during murine Plasmodium berghei infection. We found a large reduction in circulating numbers when compared with an equivalent chemically induced anaemia. However, mathematical analysis of parasite and red cell numbers revealed the preference of P. berghei for reticulocytes to be approximately 150-fold over that for erythrocytes, leading to increased destruction of reticulocytes. Although erythropoietic suppression is evident during the first week of P. berghei infection, this preferential infection and destruction of reticulocytes is sufficient to mediate ongoing reduced levels of circulating reticulocytes during the latter stages of infection, following compensatory erythropoiesis in response to haemolytic anaemia.

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PubMed1997

Evaluation of the reticulocyte count portion of technicon H*3 blood analyzer: lowering the test expense by reducing the reticulocyte reagent.

Automated reticulocyte counting has become an essential instrument of the hematology laboratory. This automatic technique has lead to diminishing labour tasks and to significant improvements in accuracy and precision compared with the manual microscopic methods. In any event, it adds a considerable expense to the laboratory budget. Here, we report the modified method of applying the new mixture of 1 microL of whole blood with 1 mL of reticulocyte reagent, which we evaluated for its accuracy and precision, instead of using the mixture of 3 microL of whole blood with 3 mL of reticulocyte reagent recommended by the company. We demonstrated the accepted accurate and precise results of percentage and absolute number of retculocyte count, low-stained reticulocyte count and its corpuscular indices; the mean reticulocyte corpuscular volume (MCVr), mean reticulocyte corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (CHCMr), and mean reticulocyte hemoglobin content (CHr). These suggested that, for every red cell assessed, the number, the cell volume, hemoglobin content and concentration are accurately and precisely measured by the modified method while the sub-populations of reticulocyte count and distribution width of reticulocyte indices are variable. In conclusion, our results provided the information that 1) the modified method can be used as a routine test and it provides accurate and precise results; 2) with the modified method, two-thirds of the expense spent for reticulocyte reagent can be saved; 3) it should not be used for research purposes.

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PubMed1999

Automated reticulocyte counting and immature reticulocyte fraction measurement. Comparison of ABX PENTRA 120 Retic, Sysmex R-2000, flow cytometry, and manual counts.

We evaluated reticulocyte counting and measurement of immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF) with the ABX PENTRA 120 Retic blood analyzer on 300 blood samples. Reticulocyte counts were compared with those obtained by visual counting of 2,000 RBCs, by the TOA (Kobe, Japan) Sysmex R-2000 and a flow cytometry method. The parameters analyzed were the percentages of reticulocytes on all analyzers and the IRF with different modalities. The Retic Count kit (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA) was used with the Coulter (Hialech, FL) XL, and a mean channel of fluorescence (MCF) was calculated to fit the reticulocyte maturation. Reticulocyte counting with the ABX (Montpellier, France) PENTRA 120 Retic showed excellent precision and linearity with no significant carryover. Reticulocyte counts were stable after blood storage for 72 hours at 4 degrees C but not at room temperature (RT). IRF parameters values were stable for only 8 hours at 4 degrees C and 6 hours at RT. Comparisons of the methods showed good intraclass correlation (RI) for reticulocyte percentages between ABX PENTRA 120 Retic and Sysmex R-2000, ABX PENTRA 120 Retic and flow cytometry, Sysmex R-2000 and flow cytometry, and ABX PENTRA 120 Retic and manual counting. IRF values were correlated between fluorescence rates and RNA content, but in each case, low RI values were found, showing that Sysmex and ABX IRF values were not concordant. We obtained a significant correlation between mean fluorescence index and the MCF measured by flow cytometry, but the 2 methods were not concordant using the RI. The ABX PENTRA 120 Retic is a good instrument for analyzing reticulocyte count and percentage and allows a good analysis of IRF with several modalities.

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PubMed2005

Expression of Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines during reticulocyte maturation: using a CD71 flow cytometric technique to identify reticulocytes.

Flow cytometric methods commonly used to identify reticulocytes are of limited usefulness in malarious areas, since RNA staining also detects plasmodia. An important antigen expressed on reticulocytes is Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC, also known as Fy), the receptor for Plasmodium vivax. An early marker for reticulocytes is CD71 (transferrin receptor). We have been interested in CD71 as an alternative marker for reticulocytes in the context of Fy expression. Flow cytometry was used to determine the expression of Fy on CD71-positive and -negative reticulocytes and to correlate serology and genotype. A reduction of 13 percent was seen in Fy6 expression between CD71-positive reticulocytes and RNA-positive reticulocytes. CD71 disappears early during reticulocyte maturation, while Fy6 expression is relatively preserved. CD71 is an alternative to staining for RNA for reticulocyte assays relating to Fy6 expression.

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PubMed1990

Reticulocytes II: Reexamination of the in vivo survival of stress reticulocytes.

Very young reticulocytes are released into the circulation in response to the stress of anemia. These stress reticulocytes have shortened in vivo survival when transfused into normal recipients, and are generally considered to be abnormal because they have skipped a terminal cell division. We reevaluated one aspect of their abnormality: that of in vivo survival. Using methodology that accounted for all cells transfused, in vivo survival of both normal and stress reticulocytes was investigated in both normal and anemic recipients. The experiments demonstrate that: (1) survival of reticulocytes is normal only when normal reticulocytes are injected into nonanemic animals; (2) intrinsic properties of stress reticulocytes lead to their immediate removal from the circulation by normal recipients to a significantly greater extent than by anemic recipients; and (3) both stress and normal reticulocytes are removed at an accelerated rate over time by anemic recipients. Taken together, the data indicate that in the course of becoming anemic, an adaptation occurs that allows cells produced during anemia to circulate considerably longer in anemic animals than they could in normal nonanemic animals. Other studies disclosed that increased reticulocyte survival in anemic animals could not be attributed to reticuloendothelial overload, but is induced by adaptation of the spleen, decreasing its removal of stress reticulocytes.

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PubMed2001

[Reticulocyte as indication of the erythroid hematopoiesis: reticulocyte fractions in peripheral blood and bone marrow].

Reticulocyte fractions of peripheral blood and bone marrow were measured for hematological disease in 235 patients using automated fluorescent reticulocyte analysis of Sysmex R-3000. The comparison with R-3000 and the manual method of bone marrow measurement showed an excellent agreement with a correlation coefficient of r = 0.933. In the ratio of reticulocyte fractions of marrow blood and peripheral blood, the marrow blood rate of reticulocytes, HFR, MFR, and LFR was 3.3, 6.2, 1.6, and 0.9 times higher than the peripheral blood rate, respectively. Cases in which the marrow reticulocyte rate was over ten times higher than the peripheral blood rate were observed in MDS and megaloblastic anemia at ratio of 55% and 100%, respectively. These findings suggest ineffective hematopoiesis in bone marrow. Immature reticulocyte fraction(10% or more) showed an excellent agreement with granulocyte(500/microliter or more) as an indication of the engraftment of allotransplantation of bone marrow, in which the analysis of reticulocyte fractions showed a useful indication of engraftment. In cases of death after bone marrow transplantation unlike in survivors, reticulocyte fractions decreased after engraftment.

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PubMed1990

A new method for isolation of reticulocytes: positive selection of human reticulocytes by immunomagnetic separation.

A method for isolating pure reticulocytes from leukocyte-depleted blood of normal persons is presented. The separation was achieved using an immunomagnetic technique. A monoclonal mouse antibody against human transferrin receptor was bound to magnetic beads conjugated with sheep antimouse antibody. The recovery of reticulocytes from peripheral blood was 15% to 42%. Blood used for isolation of reticulocytes could be stored for 4 days at 22 degrees C without altering the yield of reticulocytes. At 37 degrees C incubation, the reticulocytes matured rapidly and the transferrin receptor was found to have a half-life of 16 hours. The activity of several enzymes and the amount of creatine and hemoglobin A1C were measured both in the reticulocytes and peripheral blood. Of the enzymes, porphobilinogen deaminase had the best discriminatory power with a ratio of 8.8 between reticulocytes and peripheral red blood cells. The ratio for creatine was 16.7. The ability to isolate pure human reticulocytes, released after normal erythropoiesis, will offer new possibilities in the study of these cells.

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PubMed1993

Flow cytometric reticulocyte analysis and the reticulocyte maturity index.

Reticulocyte analysis has evolved to one of the accepted and routinely practiced clinical applications of flow cytometry technology. Similar to CD4 measurements, FCM technology has contributed to documented improvements in reticulocyte counting precision over previous microscope-based techniques. The ability to FCM instruments to quantitate fluorescence intensity has been utilized to derive a parameter of reticulocyte maturity, which we have termed the reticulocyte maturity index. The FCM-derived RMI parameter offers an additional perspective to assess the erythropoietic response in anemic patients over reticulocyte counting alone and provides further insight into the differential diagnosis of anemia. Clinical utility of the RMI has been reported in monitoring expensive, new-technology therapies, such as bone marrow transplantation and erythropoietin therapy. FCM reticulocyte analysis is still not fully mature, but is in a state of continued evolution. Needs exist for (i) improved software for data analysis, (ii) newer automation techniques to improve interlaboratory correlations, and (iii) further validation and refinement of the reticulocyte maturity index parameter.

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PubMed2001

[Comparison of various reticulocyte counting methods and the standardization of reticulocyte counting].

The reticulocyte count has been conventionally determined using a visual method. Recently, due to technological advances an automated method has come into general use in laboratories. The precision in terms of reproducibility of automated reticulocyte counters has also made rapid progress compared with the visual method. The measurements of reticulocyte counts showed good correlation among the five automated reticulocyte counters and the visual method although the accuracy of an automated method is problematical since it is not sufficient to find the true value. It remains difficult to standardize reticulocyte counting because automated reticulocyte counting is performed in accordance with the procedure specified by the respective manufactures; thus, an external quality control survey was performed for an accuracy assurance of reticulocyte counts with the participation of many laboratories. In the future, it is necessary to develop biological reference materials equal to the true value or to establish other standardization using new technology.

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PubMed1975

The maturation of reticulocytes. I. Following introduction of reticulocytes into polycythemic and normocythemic animals.

Investigations were conducted on the life-span of "stress" reticulocytes and the fate of the early denucleated large-sized reticulocytes in circulating blood. Reticulocyte disappearance was examined after reticulocyte introduction into the vein and into the peritoneal cavity of polycythemic and normocythemic animals. The results indicated that these introduced reticulocytes matured to red cells by about 36 hours after injection under both the polycythemic and normocytehmic conditions. The large-sized reticulocytes disappeared by about 4 to 12 hours after introduction. The maturation of reticulocytes was largely arrested when the cells were introduced into the peritoneal cavity.

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