DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR MEMBRANE TOXICITY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/15 G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves taking blood at 1 ml per a sample into the Vakutainer evacuated test tube with sprayed ethylene diaminetetraacetic acid 2.2 mg; a reference sample 1.0 ml and a sample 1.0 ml with weighted xenobiotics are taken from the total volume into the Eppendorf tubes; 30-minute incubation is followed by using a uniform procedure to prepare blood smears by applying on a dry slide to prepare a smear to be stained according to Leishman; blood corpuscles are analysed by the Zeiss light microscope at a magnification 1500. A microscope field showing echinocytes with styloid processes of the membrane not found in the reference sample is a sign of the xenobiotic membrane toxicity.

EFFECT: invention enables an instant assessment of the membrane toxicity of the substance.