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Quantitative analysis of Howell-Jolly bodies in children with sickle cell disease.
Experimental hematology - 1 Feb 2007
Harrod Virginia L, Howard Thad A, Zimmerman Sherri A, Dertinger Stephen D, Ware Russell E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Although functional asplenia in sickle cell disease (SCD) begins early in life and has important clinical consequences, quantitative measurement of splenic function is not readily available. A novel high-throughput flow cytometric method for quantitating Howell-Jolly bodies (HJB) has been developed which isolates HJB-containing CD71(+) and CD71(-) erythrocytes. Analysis of these cell populations...
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