title: Atomic absorption spectrometric determination of selenium in human blood components.
abstract: We separated blood from five healthy blood donors into plasma, erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes; counted the number of cells in each fraction; and determined the selenium content of each component by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry. The mean (+/- SD) selenium concentrations and amounts measured were as follows: whole blood 102.3 +/- 16.1 micrograms/L, plasma 76.9 +/- 10.6 micrograms/L, erythrocytes 13.7 +/- 2.8 ag per cell, platelets 4.8 +/- 1.1 ag per cell, and leukocytes 99 +/- 26 ag per cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pettersson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Olin
mesh_terms: D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000032:analysis; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000032:analysis; D010949:Plasma / Q000032:analysis; D010976:Platelet Count; D012016:Reference Values; D012643:Selenium / Q000097:blood*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
chemical_list: D012643:Selenium