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Leucocyte culture with bean extract and AB serum for chromosome analysis

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It must be confessed that the bean extract method outlined above is much more laborious and time-consuming than the procedure utilizing phytohemagglutinin. However, imported products, especially perishable items requiring special conditions for transportation and storage—not only sell at prohibitive prices, but do not always arrive at their destination in the same condition as when they left their country of origin.

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From the Chaudhuri Centre for Medical Genetics, Calcutta-14.

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Chaudhuri, A. Leucocyte culture with bean extract and AB serum for chromosome analysis. Indian J Pediatr 37, 527–530 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02813166

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