Buffy coat

For the item of military clothing, see Buff coat.
Layer of thrombocytes and leukocytes ("buffy coat") between erythrocytes and blood plasma after gentle centrifugation of whole blood with sodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate anticoagulant.

The buffy coat is the fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the leukocytes and thrombocytes following centrifugation.[1]

  1. ^ Cottler-Fox, Michele; Montgomery, Matthew; Theus, John (2009-01-01), Treleaven, Jennifer; Barrett, A John (eds.), "CHAPTER 24 - Collection and processing of marrow and blood hematopoietic stem cells", Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Clinical Practice, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, pp. 249–256, ISBN 978-0-443-10147-2, retrieved 2022-08-09