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Immunomagnetic bead cell isolates reduce kidney donor cold ischemia time, STAT crossmatch time and histocompatibility
S R Breton1, A C Breggia, R A Emmons
1Maine Medical Center Research Institute, South Portland 04106, USA.
Clinical Transplantation
|December 31, 1997
Abstract:
The use of immunomagnetic beads for STAT cadaveric crossmatching for renal transplantation reduces test cost by 50%, laboratory work-up time by 50% and cold ischemia time by 4 h as compared with the nylon wool method of T- and B-lymphocyte separation.
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