Screening for hemoglobin C using Technicon H-6000: the effect of formalin.
It has recently been shown that the automated H-6000 cell counter is unable to correctly process blood samples containing hemoglobin C. In this paper, we report that formalin is responsible for the failure of red blood cell lysis in the H-6000.
D001772:Blood Cell Count / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004347:Drug Interactions; D005557:Formaldehyde / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006444:Hemoglobin C / Q000032:analysis*; D006461:Hemolysis / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans
D005557:Formaldehyde; D006444:Hemoglobin C