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PBMC?

Posted by aedahm on 11 Sep 2009 at 11:27 GMT

Peripheral blood (PB) was drawn in PAXgene RNA isolation tubes
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006803#article1.body1.sec2.sec2.p1

Is it not somewhat inaccurate to say that you get PBMC with this method? In addition to RNA from mononuclear cells you will also have RNA from granulocytes and reticulocytes. I think this is one of the problems with the paxgene tubes.

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