摘要:
A flow cytometry method reproducibly detects and counts a lymphocyte population of interest in a leukocyte suspension or whole blood sample in which the red cells are subsequently lysed. The suspension (or sample) is combined with a reagent comprising a primary antibody, either native, carrying an attached enzyme or biotin or other label, and a fixative reagent, in either order. Where the enzyme is not attached, an enzyme is coupled specifically to the primary antibody. The fixed suspension is reacted with a color- producing enzyme-cytochemical reagent. The suspension, now including stained and unstained fixed cells, is passed through a flow cytometer and the cells are characterized and counted on the basis of their light-scattering and light-absorbing properties.
摘要:
Methods for characterizing and distinguishing reticulocytes and mature red blood cells use reagent compositions which include organic cationic dyes for staining the reticulocytes in the blood sample and buffer solutions for maintaining a pH of about 6 to about 9. The dyes may be the blue absorption dyes Oxazine 750 or New Methylene Blue. When a zwitterionic surfactant is included in the reagent composition for isovolumetric sphering of the reticulocytes and erythrocytes, and the reagent composition and whole blood sample mixture is passed through the sensing region of a flow cytometer, the light scattered and absorbed by each cell is measured, the erythrocytes can be distinguished from reticulocytes and the volume, hemoglobin concentration and the hemoglobin content of each reticulocyte or erythrocyte, and the mean cell volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, and mean cell hemoglobin of the reticulocytes or erythrocytes are calculated from the measured cell-by-cell volume and hemoglobin concentration. One method also includes adjusting the measured absorption signals for pseudo-absorption.
摘要:
A flow cytometry method reproducibly detects and counts a lymphocyte population of interest in a leukocyte suspension or whole blood sample in which the red cells are subsequently lysed. The suspension (or sample) is combined with a reagent comprising a primary antibody, either native, carrying an attached enzyme or biotin or other label, and a fixative reagent, in either order. Where the enzyme is not attached, an enzyme is coupled specifically to the primary antibody. The fixed suspension is reacted with a color- producing enzyme-cytochemical reagent. The suspension, now including stained and unstained fixed cells, is passed through a flow cytometer and the cells are characterized and counted on the basis of their light-scattering and light-absorbing properties.
摘要:
Methods for characterizing and distinguishing reticulocytes and mature red blood cells use reagent compositions which include an organic cationic dye for staining the reticulocytes in the blood sample and a buffer solution for maintaining a pH of about 6 to about 9. The dyes may be the red excitable fluorescent dye Oxazine 750, or the blue excitable fluorescent dyes Acridine Orange or derivatives of Acridine Orange. When a zwitterionic surfactant is included in the reagent composition for isovolumetric sphering of the reticulocytes and erythrocytes, and the reagent composition and whole blood sample mixture is passed through the sensing region of a flow cytometer, the light scattered through at least one angular interval and that fluoresced by each cell is measured, the erythrocytes can be distinguished from reticulocytes and the volume, hemoglobin concentration and the hemoglobin content of each reticulocyte or erythrocyte, and the mean cell volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, and mean cell hemoglobin of the reticulocytes and/or erythrocytes are calculated from the measured cell-by-cell volume and hemoglobin concentration.
摘要:
Methods for blood sample preparation using reagent compositions which include a zwitterionic surfactant for sphering of cells to eliminate orientational noise. When the reagent composition including a dye for staining a subset of cells is reacted with a blood sample, and the reaction mixture is passed through the sensing region of a flow cytometer, the light scattered and absorbed by each cell is measured, the stained cells can be distinguished from the unstained cells, and when the cells are reticulocytes and mature erythrocytes, respectively, the volume and hemoglobin concentration of each reticulocyte or erythrocyte, and the hemoglobin content, mean cell volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, and mean cell hemoglobin of the reticulocytes or erythrocytes are calculated from the measured cell-by-cell volume and hemoglobin concentration.
摘要:
A one-step method (and sphering agent/fixing agent useful therein) for treating mammalian red blood cells in a sample which can be effectively measured electrooptically for determination of red blood cell volumes, which comprises treating an anticoagulated whole blood sample with a single aqueous sphering agent/fixing agent reagent at a temperature in the range of 4°C to 37°C over a reaction period of up to 180 seconds employing a whole blood dilution factor of from 1:300 to 1:4,000 wherein said ona step, single reagent treatment provides isovoluments sphering of the erythrocytes in the semple independent of the concentration of said erythrocytes in the whole Diood sample and without inducing lysis of said erychwocytes in the resulting diluted semple. The preferred sptering agent is an alkali metal salt of an alkyl sulfate irr an amount 0.5 to 3.0 mg %, and the preferred fixing agent is an aldehyde in an amount from 0.05 to 0.3%.