Process for preparing a cell suspension from blood for discrimination of white blood cells & platelets from other blood particles
CA 1085280 A · Owner: Technicon Instruments Corporation · Inventors: Kim, Young R.
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Procedures are disclosed for obtaining white blood cell counts and platelet counts by light scattering measurements in which anticoagulated blood samples are treated such that the morphology of the white cells (leukocytes) and platelets remain intact and permit the discrimination of platelets from white cells and of most classes of white cells from one another and their counting without the need for staining.
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- Granted September 9, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 9, 1997.
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