Flow Cytometric Assessment of Erythrocyte Shape through Analysis of FSC Histograms: Use of Kurtosis and Implications for Longitudinal Evaluation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ahlgrim, Christoph ^a   Pottgiesser, Torben ^a,c   Sander, Thomas ^a   Schumacher, Yorck Olaf ^b   Baumstark, Manfred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ASPETAR ORTHOPAEDIC AND SPORTS MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW RATE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KURTOSIS; OSMOLARITY; PEARSON COEFFICIENT OF DISSYMMETRY; PLOTS AND CURVES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHERICAL INDEX; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ALGORITHMS; CELL SHAPE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84875331856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059862     Document Type: Article

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