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Cryostat temperature - ANSWER✔✔ -18 to -20C
Microtome cuts - ANSWER✔✔ 4-6 um
Paraffin Bath Temperature - ANSWER✔✔ 45C
Spleen functions - ANSWER✔✔ destroy old red blood cells, produce antibodies,
store red blood cells, filter microorganism
Standard Precautions - ANSWER✔✔ a set of infection control practices used to
prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body
fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.
Tourniquet cleaned with - ANSWER✔✔ 70-90% ethyl alcohol (antiseptic)
Skin cleaned with - ANSWER✔✔ 70-90% ethyl alcohol
Lab bench Cleaned with - ANSWER✔✔ 1% bleach
Metal surfaces cleaned with - ANSWER✔✔ 2% gluteraldehyde
Modes of entry - ANSWER✔✔ inhalation, ingestion, absorption, injection
,Antiseptics - ANSWER✔✔ Solutions that are applied directly to the skin and
prevent or slow the growth of pathogens.
H2O2, iodine, 1-2% phenol, 70% alcohols
Disinfectants - ANSWER✔✔ used on inanimate objects
Sodium hypochlorite, 1% bleach
Gluteraldehyde - ANSWER✔✔ A chemical fixative often used in the preparation
of tissue for electron microscopy used on metals
2% solutions
store in dark
Autoclave - ANSWER✔✔ 15 min or more, 121C, 103.4 KPA (15psi)
Serum - ANSWER✔✔ no fibrinogen, forms clot, clot contracts expressses serum.
For chem serology & blood bank
2 layers blood clot and serum
Do we perform differentials on buffy coat - ANSWER✔✔ no
What anticoagulant is used for transfusion - ANSWER✔✔ CPDA-AS (citrate
phosphate dextrose adenosine1)
, Forming a clot - ANSWER✔✔ Plts form primary plug, coag factors activated,
coag begins and end product fibrinogen is converted to fibrin to forma mesh
network (clot)
Defibrination - ANSWER✔✔ use beads/rods and rotate blood in a glass container
then centrifuge serum and cells
for people with low WBCS because higher WBC concentration
Intrinsic pathway of coagulation - ANSWER✔✔ in vascular system, aPTT
Intrinsic Factors - ANSWER✔✔ f 12, f 11, (CA), f 9, PLT f3, f 8
extrinsic pathway of coagulation - ANSWER✔✔ external trauma/ tissue injury
PT test
Extrinsic factors - ANSWER✔✔ tissue thromboplastin, CA, F7
Common Pathway of coagulation - ANSWER✔✔ Factor X, (CA+ PLT F3), Factor
V, PT -> thrombin, fibrinogen -> fibrin, CLOT
Na Citrate - ANSWER✔✔ chelates CA, 3.2% preferred more gentle,
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