PortugueseBlood from humans and animals is different!
The distribution of glucose in blood from humans and animals is different. On the one hand humans and animals have a different hematocrite value (human: 37-50%, dog: 37-55%, cat 27-47%), meaning that the number of red blood cells differs.
There is also a significant difference in the size of red blood cells of different species, therefore the percentage of glucose in plasma is diverse. In humans the part of glucose inside the red blood cells is about 42%, whereas about 58% of the glucose is situated in the plasma.
In cats (less and smaller red blood cells) the distribution of glucose is only about 7% inside the red blood cells and the major part of about 93% can be found in the plasma.
