"Blood Buffy Coat" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The fraction of a blood sample, following CENTRIFUGATION, that is distinguished as a thin light-colored layer between the RED BLOOD CELLS, underneath it, and the PLASMA, above it. It is composed mostly of WHITE BLOOD CELLS and PLATELETS.
| Descriptor ID |
D058621
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A15.145.229.093
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| Concept/Terms |
Blood Buffy Coat- Blood Buffy Coat
- Blood Buffy Coats
- Buffy Coats, Blood
- Buffy Coat, Blood
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood Buffy Coat" by people in Profiles.
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Cord blood buffy coat DNA methylation is comparable to whole cord blood methylation. Epigenetics. 2018; 13(1):108-116.