Blood (10 μl) from the facial vein of live mice was drawn into ACD coated syringes and then fixed in 0.2% PFA. The fixed whole blood was incubated over night (O/N) with CD41 antibody before platelets were identified by both CD41 positivity and forward- and side- scatter by flow cytometry (FACSCalibur). The platelet populations were gated and data collected for 1 minute. The flow rate of the FACSCalibur combined with the dilution factor of the whole blood in fixative was used to calculate the number of platelets/ml.
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