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WBC Pipette
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A WBC pipette (White Blood Cell pipette, or leukocyte Thoma pipette) is a specialized laboratory tool used to accurately measure and dilute blood samples for manual White Blood Cell (WBC) counting under a microscope. It is utilized alongside a counting chamber (hemocytometer) to evaluate an animal's immune response, inflammation, or infection.
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In veterinary medicine, total leukocyte counts (TLC) help veterinarians diagnose infections, inflammatory conditions, and leukemias. While automated analyzers are standard, manual counting using a WBC pipette remains an essential, cost-effective diagnostic tool in resource-limited veterinary clinics, for exotic animal species (which can be difficult to run on standard analyzers), or for verifying abnormal automated results.
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- Built-in Dilution Ratios: Allows for a standardized 1:20 sample dilution, optimized to effectively visualize and manually count large populations of leukocytes.
- Glacial Acetic Acid Lysis: The recommended diluting fluid effectively lyses red blood cells, ensuring that the remaining cells to be counted are exclusively white blood cells.
- Staining: The gentian violet in the diluting fluid stains the nuclei of the white blood cells, making them clearly visible against the clear background of the counting chamber.
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