Leukocytes are important infection fighters, but people who need transfusions need red cells or other blood components.
Tandem mass spectrometry, which can precisely and efficiently count blood components that become elevated with certain disorders, is catching on.
Removal of leukocytes from blood components is referred to as leukocyte reduction, or leukoreduction.
Clotting is a sequential process that involves the interaction of numerous blood components called coagulation factors.
During the study, the participants underwent a number of tests including blood-pressure checks and measurement of a variety of blood components, including cholesterol.
The relevant part of Wada's list of prohibited substances is section M1, which deals with "manipulation of blood and blood components".
But I.B.M. is aiming toward something more like the human immune system, with its blood components that find and identify foreign bodies and others that disable them.
Many companies and academic labs have joined the race to find so-called biomarkers, blood components like proteins or lipids that can signal disease.
Blood components are anticoagulated with citrate.
Strides – Strides enables safe, better quality, and high availability of blood components.
Apheresis is a procedure to selectively obtain blood components.
