Quantitation of white cell subpopulations by polymerase chain reaction using frozen whole-blood samples

Transfusion

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 262-270

  Lee, T H ^a   Sakahara, N S ^a   Fiebig, E W ^a,b,c   Hirschkorn, D F ^a   Johnson, D K ^a   Busch, M P ^a  

^a Blood Centers of the Pacific   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031941929     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1998.38398222870.x     Document Type: Article

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