By HARRY J. FITCH T HERE ARE t-iso standard nuethods for counting platelets, the direct and the indirect. For the direct nuethod the blood is accurately diluted with au anst-icoagulamut sohutiomu, usually in a hemocytomet-er pipet, and the platelets are enumsuei’ated ims a counting chanuber.1 For the indirect nuethod the blood is diluted amid a drop is placed on an ordinary microscope slide. It...

Vol. 25 No. 3, 2013 385 Received May 29, 2012, Revised October 15, 2012, Accepted for publication October 20, 2012 Corresponding author: Junko Moriue, Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Kitagun Mikicho, 761-0793 Kagawa, Japan. Tel: 81-87-891-2162, Fax: 81-87891-2163, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed unde...

Vol. 26 No. 5, 2014 643 Received July 23, 2013, Revised September 20, 2013, Accepted for publication October 3, 2013 Corresponding author: Kumiko Kimura, Division of Cutaneous Science, Department of Dermatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi Kamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan. Tel: 81-3-3972-8111, Fax: 81-3-5995-9841, E-mail: kimura.kumiko@ nihon-u.ac.jp This is an...

While hemolysis in patients with sepsis is associated with increased mortality its mechanisms are unknown and Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 mediated effects, complement-mediated hemolysis, or direct cell membrane effects are all conceivable mechanisms. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that toxic lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as well as non-toxic RS-LPS evokes hemolysis (1) by direct membrane eff...

background: the development of anti-red blood cell alloantibodies remains a major problem in transfusion of blood in thalassemia major patients. also, autoantibodies can result in clinical hemolysis and difficulty in cross-matching blood. we studied the frequency of red blood cell alloimmunization and autoimmunization among thalassemia patients who received regular transfusions in ilam province...