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Continuous Monitoring of Platelet Morphology during Small‐Scale in vitro Storage
Author(s) -
Trenchard P.M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1986.tb01950.x
Subject(s) - platelet , cuvette , morphology (biology) , biomedical engineering , materials science , chemistry , medicine , optics , biology , immunology , physics , genetics
. A commercially available aggregometer was mechanically and electronically modified to enable automatic repeated measurements of platelet morphology for platelet suspensions undergoing prolonged storage within a sealed perspex cuvette, at any temperature. The modifications are described in sufficient detail to enable others to readily produce the same or similar apparatus. Representative experiments with such apparatus are described, and indicate its potential usefulness in defining the rate of change of platelet morphology occurring during storage at any given temperature, e.g. progressive alteration of shear‐induced light transmission change values.