Simulated human platelets from red blood cells
US4436821A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 12, 1982 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 12, 2002 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T436/102499
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A lysable, blood platelet reference control comprising a suspension of a mixture of permanently shrunken animal red blood cells in a suspension medium non-deleterious to said cells, said cells having been partially fixed with a fixing agent to reduce cell membrane elasticity prior to being shrunken, and said mixture of permanently shrunken cells in said suspension medium simulating in number, size and volume distribution the platelets present in human whole blood.
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