BACKGROUND Blood samples are usually collected daily from different collection points, such hospitals and health centers, and transported to a core laboratory for testing. This paper presents a project to improve the collection routes of two of the largest clinical laboratories in Spain. These routes must be designed in a cost-efficient manner while satisfying two important constraints: (i) two...

Placental vessels contain a quarter to a third of cord blood at birth(2) which is now being used for stem cell transfusions in Fanconi's anemia, leukemia, thalassemia major, sickle cell anemia and aplastic anemia. The first premature infant who received autologous cord blood transfusion was reported by Ballin et al.{2). We report an indigenously developed cord blood collection technique which c...

The horseshoe crab has the best-characterized immune system of any long-lived invertebrate. The study of immunity in horseshoe crabs has been facilitated by the ease in collecting large volumes of blood and from the simplicity of the blood. Horseshoe crabs show only a single cell type in the general circulation, the granular amebocyte. The plasma has the salt content of sea water and only three...

The zebrafish has been used as an animal model for studies of several human diseases. It can serve as a powerful preclinical platform for studies of molecular events and therapeutic strategies as well as for evaluating the physiological mechanisms of some pathologies. There are relatively few publications related to adult zebrafish physiology of organs and systems, which may lead researchers to...

BACKGROUND Evaluating diagnostic and early detection biomarkers requires comparing serum protein concentrations among biosamples ascertained from subjects with and without cancer. Efforts are generally made to standardize blood processing and storage conditions for cases and controls, but blood sample collection conditions cannot be completely controlled. For example, blood samples from cases a...

Ned Tijdschr Klin Chem Labgeneesk 2008, vol. 33, no. 3 Tenslotte kunnen vraagtekens gezet worden bij de gegevens vermeld in de bijsluiter van de Immulite 2500. In de bijsluiter is de volgende correlatie beschreven: Immulite 2500 = 0,93 x Immulite 2000 + 10,7 pg/ml (5). Vertaald naar pmol/l zou een waarde van 150 pmol/l op de Immulite 2000 een waarde van 147 pmol/l op de Immulite 2500 moeten opl...

stage of anesthetization, and is never anesthetized fわr too long a period. ( ii ) Disinfection and stimulation offoot blood flow: A foot is disinfected uslng an alcohol-soaked cotton and mbbed vigorously by a gauze moistened with methyl salicylate・ Use ofxylene is discouraged because it hams the skin. (iii) Collection ofblood: A vein between the digits of the foot is punctured using a 20-gauge ...

The letter by Bertolini et all is primarily addressed to three references. The first two references were two letters written to BLOOD in 1992 by myself and my colleague^.'^^ These letters written in 1992 were not written to draw attention to the loss of hemoglobin, but to draw attention to ethical, medical, and legal issues revolving around the deliberate taking of blood from a n e w b ~ r n . ...

Unrelated-donor umbilical cord blood (CB) is a useful alternative hematopoietic stem cell source for patients without suitably matched and readily available related or unrelated stem cell donors. Expectant parents today may have the option of either donating the CB to a public CB bank or keeping and storing the CB in a private bank for potential use in the future. The alternatives are often ref...