RE: Lithium Heparin

From: Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson (stetler@box-s.nih.gov)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 13:25:17 EST


Lithium heparin is toxic to lymphoid cells. We avoid it.

	Maryalice


>Does anyone have any experience with having used whole blood collected in
>lithium heparin and then following a staining protocol for surface markers
>as well as intracellular markers? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Kathleen MacColl
>UC Davis Medical Center

Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson
Director Flow Cytometry Unit
Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH



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