• Washed red blood cells are red blood cells that have had most of the plasma, platelets and white blood cells removed and replaced with saline or another...
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    Packed red blood cells, also known as packed cells, are red blood cells that have been separated for blood transfusion. The packed cells are typically...
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    concentrated washed red blood cells. The last step is reinfusing the packed red blood cells into the patient. There are multiple ways to wash red blood cells. The...
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    the setting of trauma. Red blood cells (RBC) contain hemoglobin and supply the cells of the body with oxygen. White blood cells are not commonly used during...
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    oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma...
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    is tested against a set of red blood cells with known antigen profiles; if the plasma agglutinates one of the red blood cells in the panel, this indicates...
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  • Coombs test (category Blood tests)
    attached to the surface of red blood cells. To perform the test, a blood sample is taken and the red blood cells are washed (removing the patient's plasma and...
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  • Cis AB (category Blood)
    Taiwan. Some Cis-AB carriers need components like washed red blood cells or autotransfusion of serum and blood. Cis-AB type was studied first in humans in Japan...
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    shown to be against the foal's red blood cells. Such tests include crossmatching the mare's serum to washed red blood cells of the foal, which is added to...
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    thoroughly wash red blood cells from a peripherally collected EDTA blood collection tube using centrifugation. Mix washed patient red blood cells, that are...
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    rupturing (lysis) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of their contents (cytoplasm) into surrounding fluid (e.g. blood plasma). Hemolysis...
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  • stimulates peripheral stem cells in the bone marrow to produce red blood cells) Blood salvage procedures Blood substitutes such as blood volume expanders and...
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    IBM 2991 (category Blood)
    in 1972. The processor washed fresh blood or frozen, thawed blood. In the case of frozen, thawed blood, the blood was washed to remove the cryogenic...
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  • clinical complications. The washed system requires a properly trained and clinically skilled operator. It returns only red blood cells suspended in saline and...
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    Platelet (redirect from Blood platelet)
    platelets and the white blood cells. The "buffy coat" is isolated in a sterile bag, suspended in a small amount of red blood cells and plasma, then centrifuged...
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  • concentrated red blood cells (this blood product is also called packed red blood cells). There are multiple ways to wash red blood cells. The two main methods...
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    Agar plate (redirect from Blood agar)
    and agar. Chocolate agar is a type of blood agar plate in which the blood cells have been lysed by heating the cells to 80 °C. It is used for growing fastidious...
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    red blood cells that cause the cells to shrink and become rigid like the aging cells. This triggers the immune system to eliminate the infected cells...
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    Monocyte monolayer assay (category Blood tests)
    antibody-sensitized red blood cells (RBC) and may or may not exhibit phagocytosis (ingestion) and destroy the donor red blood cells. If monocytes destroy...
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    unusual red cell antibodies must receive washed red cells or cryopreserved red cells. Washed red cells have been removed of plasma proteins that would have...
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    Human Cell Atlas project, which started in 2016, had as one of its goals to "catalog all cell types (for example, immune cells or brain cells) and sub-types...
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    environment that allows complement to bind to red blood cells. In individuals with PNH, some red blood cells are especially vulnerable to lysis caused by...
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  • through vasodilation (widening of blood vessels). Clinically, hyperaemia in tissues manifests as erythema (redness of the skin) because of the engorgement...
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  • Saver that collect anticoagulated shed or recovered blood, wash and separate the red blood cells (RBC) by centrifugation. Filtration devices like HemoClear...
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    major protein component of human red blood cells which had been treated with mild detergents; the detergents lysed the cells and the hemoglobin and other...
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    majority of red blood cells and white blood cells to pass through, while larger rare cells, including circulating tumor cells and fetal cells get caught...
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    Goblet cells are simple columnar epithelial cells that secrete gel-forming mucins, like mucin 2 in the lower gastrointestinal tract, and mucin 5AC in the...
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    The Kerala red rain phenomenon was a blood rain event that occurred in Wayanad district of southern Indian state Kerala on Monday, 15 July 1957 and the...
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    Gram-negative cells have a thinner peptidoglycan layer that allows the crystal violet to wash out on addition of ethanol. They are stained pink or red by the...
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    Ringer's lactate solution (category Blood substitutes)
    electrolytes in those who have low blood volume or low blood pressure. It may also be used to treat metabolic acidosis and to wash the eye following a chemical...
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