RE:Effect of storage on retic staining

Yashpal Agrawal (yagrawal@messi.uku.fi)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 08:15:07 +0300 (WET)

Our experience (Eur J Hematol 48:58-60, 1992) suggests that samples can be
stored for only a few days in anticoagulant tubes, at 4 C or at RT.
The 2 color stained cells that you see, are almost certainly dead cells,
probably leucocytes.

Yash Pal Agrawal
Dept. of Clin.Chemistry,
Kuopio, Finland.