EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES FOR COUNTING BOVINE PLATELETS
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 41 (4) , 409-415
Abstract
Visual and electronic techniques for counting bovine [Bos taurus and B. indicus] platelets were investigated. The reference method used was hemacytometer counting of platelets in whole blood diluted with 0.85% NaCl solution. A whole blood platelet-rich plasma technique was imprecise and inaccurate. Isopycnic centrifugation of blood diluted in 8.01% NaCl solution (same density as platelets) was a precise technique, but the whole blood platelet count was underestimated. The most precise and accurate technique investigated was unit gravity sedimentation of a 1.100 dilution of blood with 10 ml of Isoton followed by electronic counting of platelets in the supernatant. This technique correlated very well with visual counting of bovine platelets (N = 77, y = 55 + 0.80x, r = 0.89, P < 0.01).This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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