"Cytapheresis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Separation of one or more kinds of cells from whole blood with the return of other blood cell constituents to the patient or donor. This is accomplished with an instrument that uses centrifugation to separate the cells into different layers based on the differences in cell density (displacement) or drag coefficients in a current (elutriation). The procedure is commonly used in adoptive transfer to isolate NK cells, lymphocytes, or monocytes.
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D016238
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.095.160 E02.120.285 E05.200.500.363.171 E05.242.363.171
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| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cytapheresis" by people in Profiles.
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Platelet-rich aggregates in MNC collection circuit. Transfusion. 2021 04; 61(4):1010-1011.