Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cytosmear
In CytoTrack, all nucleated cells in a blood sample are DAPI-stained, immunostained with antibodies against cytokeratin and CD45 and cytosmeared over a CytoDisc.
2015 January 22, Thore Hillig et al., “In vitro detection of circulating tumor cells compared by the CytoTrack and CellSearch methods”, in Tumour Biology, volume 36, →DOI
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