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Whole Blood?!!!

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:13 pm
by firework1
Is there a way to permenantly stopping whole blood from coagulating? Does free-thawed whole blood coagulate any slower?

Thanks a lot.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:08 pm
by Noser222
How about EDTA?

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:50 am
by HW Mueller
Or heparin
Freeze thawed blood??? That´s no longer blood, thats an ugly mess: Cells, cell fragments, cell content mixed with serum or plasma (most likely the blood coagulated while in the process of freezing, or if it was shock frozen, in the process of thawing).

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:23 am
by gcguy
Don't give it to someone called Vlad......sorry!!!! :lol:

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:00 pm
by DR
lots of heparin, some mixing, careful consideration of what touches it...