Efficiency comparison of two preparative mechanisms for magnetic separation of erythrocytes from whole blood

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Abstract
Separation efficiencies of erythrocytes, made paramagnetic by oxidation of their cellular oxyhemoglobin to methemoglobin with sodium nitrite, were compared under identical magnetic separation conditions with those of cells whose oxyhemoglobin had been reduced to deoxyhemoglobin through exposure to sodium dithionite, and the percentage of high-spin hemoglobin was estimated spectrophotometrically. Both parallel and transverse flow/matrix filter configurations gave greater average separation efficiencies, with less variability, for erythrocytes containing the dithionite-reduced hemoglobin. These findings are thought to originate in the characteristics of the oxidative reaction, since the spectrophotometric data indicate a similar variability in oxidation of oxyhemoglobin to methemoglobin.

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