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Hematology
Published in Alan G. Heath, Water Pollution and Fish Physiology, 2018
Hematology is defined as the study of blood and the blood-forming tissues. Blood is composed of the liquid plasma and the blood cells (sometimes called formed elements). Serum is the fluid left after blood has clotted; it has essentially the same chemical makeup as plasma, except for the absence of some of the clotting factors. While many workers include the chemistry of plasma as a part of hematology (Hawkins and Mawdesley- Thomas, 1972; Folmar, 1993), they will be kept separate here, because the composition of plasma is a reflection of the function of numerous organs (e.g., gills, liver, kidney, muscle, etc.) that are considered in other parts of this book. Thus, this chapter will be limited to a review of the “toxicophysiology” of blood cells only.
Biochemical and hematological effects of lead exposure in Iranian battery workers
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Fatemeh Kargar-Shouroki, Hamidreza Mehri, Faeze Sepahi-Zoeram
Blood samples (5 ml) were collected in Complete Blood Count (CBC) tubes (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ) containing ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) as the anticoagulant, placed in a flask containing dry ice bags at 4 °C and transported to the laboratory to analyze hematological parameters. The complete blood cell count including white blood cells (WBCs), red blood cells (RBCs), hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and platelet count (PLT) was counted by a hematology cell counter (Nihon Kohden, Japan).
vNanoscope: a mobile application to support automatic blood sample generation
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2021
Jaime Díaz, Jeferson Arango-López, Samuel Sepúlveda, Danay Ahumada, Fernando Moreira, Joaquin Gebauer
There are many areas in modern medicine where the use of microscopes is indispensable for detecting anomalies or pathologies that affect the human body. Haematology is the field that studies, investigates, diagnoses, and deals with everything related to blood (McKenzie et al. 2019).