Quantity of Hemoglobin in the Cells. Red blood cells have the ability to concentrate
hemoglobin in the cell fluid up to about 34 grams in each 100 milliliters of cells. The concentration
does not rise above this value because this is the metabolic limit of the cell‘s hemoglobin-forming
mechanism. Furthermore, in normal people, the percentage of hemoglobin is almost always near the
maximum in each cell. However, when hemoglobin formation is deficient, the percentage of
hemoglobin in the cells may fall considerably below this value and the volume of the red cell may also
decrease because of diminished hemoglobin to fill the cell. When the hematocrit (the percentage of
blood that is in cells—normally, 40 to 45 percent) and the quantity of hemoglobin in each respective
cell are normal, the whole blood of.
