Photo Presentation of Buffy Coat Preparation and Whole Blood Fractions

Are you familiar with a buffy coat? How is it prepared or collected? Buffy coat is a leukocyte-enriched fraction of whole blood. Preparing a buffy- coat fraction from whole blood is simple and it is more ideal in PCR testing because it yields approximately 5-10 times more DNA than an equivalent volume of whole blood.After blood extraction, prepare buffy coat by centrifuging whole blood for 10 min