Fig. 9. Effect of LM AgNPs on Rb⁺ influx, [K]_i, and Hb_c ODs for fresh cord RBCs. RBCs obtained from MVH were subjected to the different procedures described in Materials and Methods as shown in Fig. 1. During the flux period, cells were incubated at 37 °C for 60 min under the conditions described in legend to Fig. 3. Rb⁺ influx, [K]_i and Hb_c ODs were determined as described in Materials and Methods. Values are means ± S.D, n = 6 individual determinations for all the conditions tested. The statistical significance of the differences between NPS vs CONT, and CONT vs CONTC was determined by paired t- test. A) ***p<0.0001, n = 3 for Rb⁺ influx, B) **p<0.001, n = 3 for [K]_i, and C) p >0.05, n = 3 for Hb_c ODs.