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Purification of Platelets from Mouse Blood
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Purification of Platelets from Mouse Blood

Marilou G Narciso1, Md Nasimuzzaman2

  • 1Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove
|May 28, 2019
PubMed

Platelets are purified from whole blood to study their functional properties, which should be free from red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells (WBC), and plasma proteins. We describe here purification of platelets from mouse blood using three-fold more iohexol gradient medium relative to blood sample volume and centrifugation in a swinging bucket rotor at 400 x g for 20 min at 20 °C. The recovery/yield of the purified platelets were 18.2-38.5%, and the purified platelets were in a resting state, which did not contain any significant number of RBC and WBC. The purified platelets treated with thrombin showed up to 93% activation, indicating their viability. We confirmed that the purified platelets are sufficiently pure using flow cytometric and microscopic evaluation. These platelets can be used for gene expression, activation, granule release, aggregation, and adhesion assays. This method can be used for purification of platelets from the blood of other species as well.

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