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As an anticoagulant, ACD solution is preferred to heparin, because WBC show less tendency to adhere to plasticware with ACD (McAfee et al. 1984). 

Time delay between labeling of WBC and administration (HMPAO) 

Drugs corticosteroids (Sampson 1995 McAfee et al. 1984), ethanol (McAfee et al. 1984), cyclosporin, azathioprine, ranitidine, nifedipine, procainamide (Sampson 1995), others 

HMPAO thus has become the best agent for labeling WBC. It was a radiopharmaceutical introduced for evaluating regional cerebral blood flow and is currently the only 99mTc-iabeling agent for WBC commercially available in most countries. HMPAO is a li- 

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The formed elements consist primarily of red blood cells, ie, erythrocytes. Less than 1 /600 of the total volume of the formed elements is composed of white blood cells, ie, leukocytes, and less than 1/800 are platelets, ie, thrombocytes. Table 1 gives the typical constitution of human blood. 

Primary blood components iaclude plasma, red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), platelets (thrombocytes), and stem cells. Plasma consists of water dissolved proteias, ie, fibrinogen, albumins, and globulins coagulation factors and nutrients. The principal plasma-derived blood products are siagle-donor plasma (SDP), produced by sedimentation from whole blood donations fresh frozen plasma (FFP), collected both by apheresis and from whole blood collections cryoprecipitate, produced by cryoprecipitation of FFP albumin, collected through apheresis and coagulation factors, produced by fractionation from FFP and by apheresis (see Fractionation, blood-plasma fractionation). 

Packed red cells are prepared from whole blood. These are collected ia blood coUectioa units having integrally attached transfer packs. The red cells are sedimented by centrifugation, and the plasma and huffy coat are expressed from the bag. Further processiag of the packed red cells may be needed for a number of clinical indications. To reduce the white blood cell (WBC) contamination in a red cell product, two separation techniques are used. 

White Blood Cells. White blood cells, or leukocytes, have varying function and morphology. Mononuclear leukocytes include lymphocyte B and T-ceUs, monocytes, and progenitor cells. Polynuclear granulocytes include neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils. The most important groups in cell separation are lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes. 

Filtration Filtration (qv) is appHed in blood cell separation to remove leukocytes from ted blood cell (RBC) and platelet concentrates. Centtifugational blood cell separators do not reduce white blood cells (WBC) in red cell and platelet products sufficiently to avoid clinical complications such as GvHD and alloimmunization. A post-apheresis filtration step is needed to further reduce the WBC load. Modem filters are capable of a 3-log reduction in white cell contamination of the blood product, eg, apheresis single-donor platelet units having a typical white cell contamination of 5 x 10 white cells in 4 x 10 platelets can be reduced to a 5 x 10 white cell contamination, a sufficiently low number to avoid severe transfusion reactions. 

A. Boyum and co-workers, "Density Dependent Separation of White Blood Cells," inj. R. Harris, ed.. Blood Separation and Plasma Fractionation, Wiley-Liss, New York, 1991. 

Hematology. The functional status of blood and of the blood-forming tissues can be assessed by tests which include red and white blood cell counts, platelet counts, clotting time, coagulation tests, and examination of bone marrow. Such tests, in addition to detecting abnormahties, may also allow differentiation between primary and secondary effects on blood and blood-forming tissues (75). 

Absorption, Transport, and Excretion. The vitamin is absorbed through the mouth, the stomach, and predominantly through the distal portion of the small intestine, and hence, penetrates into the bloodstream. Ascorbic acid is widely distributed to the cells of the body and is mainly present in the white blood cells (leukocytes). The ascorbic acid concentration in these cells is about 150 times its concentration in the plasma (150,151). Dehydroascorbic acid is the main form in the red blood cells (erythrocytes). White blood cells are involved in the destmction of bacteria. 

The aperture impedance principle of blood cell counting and sizing, also called the Coulter principle (5), exploits the high electrical resistivity of blood cell membranes. Red blood cells, white blood cells, and blood platelets can all be counted. In the aperture impedance method, blood cells are first diluted and suspended ia an electrolytic medium, then drawn through a narrow orifice (aperture) separating two electrodes (Fig. 1). In the simplest form of the method, a d-c current flows between the electrodes, which are held at different electrical potentials. The resistive cells reduce the current as the cells pass through the aperture, and the current drop is sensed as a change in the aperture resistance. 

In principle, the two-angle interval method can produce all CBC parameters within a single measurement channel, uniquely providing ceU-by-ceU hemoglobin concentration. The mean of the concentrations provides an alternative (and direct) measurement of MCHC. The method also provides an alternative HGB measurement, because HGB may be set equal to (RBC x MCV x MCHC)/1000. This method, like the basic light-scattering method, uses the same flow cell to measure platelets and ted cells with the result that the method is capable of providing the CBC parameters RBC, HGB, HCT, MCV, MCHC, MCH, and PLT. The method can also count a sample s white blood cells if the sample s red blood cells have been lysed. 

There are undifferentiated stem cells of the blood elements in the bone marrow that differentiate and mature into erythrocytes, (red blood cells), thrombocytes (platelets), and white blood cells (leukocytes and lymphocytes). The production of erythrocytes is regulated by a hormone, erythropoietin (see the section on kidney toxicity), that is synthetized and excreted by the kidney. An increase in the number of premature erythrocytes is an indication of stimulation of erythropoiesis, i.e., increased production of erythrocytes in anemia due to continuous bleeding. 

Haematological characteristics (haemoglobin level, red blood and white blood cell counts, platelet count, blood clotting time). 

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