Evaluation of the PDQ™ centrifuge for preparing platelet rich, platelet poor and platelet free plasma samples for light transmission aggregometry and microparticle measurement

Platelets

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 610-612

  Albanyan, Abdul Majeed ^a   Sukhu, Kampta ^a   Harrison, Paul ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGHT TRANSMISSION AGGREGOMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMA; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 73649101704     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537100903303049     Document Type: Letter

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