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. 2013 Jun 7;4(3):67. doi: 10.1186/scrt218

Table 4.

Temperature effect on platelet-rich plasma preparation method

  12°C 18°C P value
PRP1 (300 × g, 5 minutes)
 
 
 
 Platelet recovery (%)
90.6 ± 21.7
87.7 ± 22.8
1.0000
 Platelet yield (fold)
3.1 ± 0.7
2.9 ± 0.6
0.5066
 PRP1 volume (%)
26.7 ± 0.7
27.6 ± 1.9
0.7000
PRP2 (700 × g, 17 minutes)
 
 
 
 Platelet recovery (%)
80.3 ± 26.6
86.0 ± 46.9
1.0000
 Platelet yield (fold) 9.3 ± 2.6 8.8 ± 3.6 0.8248

Analysis of variance test (n = 3, α = 0.05). PRP1 platelet-rich plasma after the first blood centrifugation step, PRP2 platelet-rich plasma after the second centrifugation step.