Toy Box Tidbits
This fictional pizza company appears throughout the Toy Story franchise.
Pizza Planet
This term describes red blood cells that appear stacked like coins due to excess plasma proteins.
Rouleaux
This chemical treatment renders red cells DAT‑negative while preserving most antigens (except for Kell BGS antigens), allowing accurate phenotyping.
EGA
This drug causes weak panagglutination with all reagent cells tested by IAT and requires DTT‑treated cells to resolve the interference.
DARA (anti-CD38)
This platelet product is created using UV technology.
Intercept (pathogen reduced) platelets
This floppy‑eared canine is the breed of Andy’s dog, Buster, in Toy Story.
Dachshund
This plant‑derived lectin, used to distinguish A1 from A2 red cells, helps resolve ABO discrepancies caused when an A2 or A2B individual produces an anti‑A1.
Dolichos biflorus
This technique allows phenotyping of sickle cell patients by separating transfused donor red cells from the patient’s own cells.
Hypotonic wash
This technique is used to rule out underlying clinically significant antibodies when a warm autoantibody masks all IAT reactivity and the patient’s phenotype cannot be obtained.
Differential adsorption
According to AABB standards, this is the minimum number of platelets required in a single unit of apheresis platelets.
3.0 × 10¹¹ platelets
This Toy Story movie is where Barbie makes her first appearance
Toy Story 2
This rare phenotype appears as group O in routine testing, yet is incompatible with nearly the entire donor population.
Bombay Phenotype
This LifeSouth‑used antisera is performed by IAT and requires a 2‑to‑1 ratio of antisera to red cell suspension.
Anti-Wra
This reagent, containing both DTT and ficin, is used to prepare red cells for adsorption by removing bound antibodies and enhancing antigen exposure.
ZZAP (W.A.R.M)
This value represents the acceptable pH range required for quality control of platelet products.
≥ 6.2
This character delivers the iconic line, ‘You’re a sad, strange little man.'
Buzz Lightyear
This reagent - commonly used to adsorb interfering cold autoantibodies - can itself create an ABO discrepancy by inadvertently removing clinically significant IgM antibodies such as anti‑B.
RESt
This chemical renders red blood cells DAT‑negative and also destroys Bga antigens.
Chloroquine diphosphate (GammaQuin)
This term describes nonspecific panagglutination of red cells with human serum after exposure of RBC ‘cryptantigens.’
Polyagglutination
According to AABB standards, this is the maximum number of residual leukocytes permitted in platelet or red cell components.
fewer than 5 × 10⁶ WBCs
This is the name of the daycare center featured in Toy Story 3.
Sunnyside Daycare
This rare ABO discrepancy occurs when certain gram‑negative bacteria modify the A antigen.
Acquired B
Individuals from this race may express the phenotype K–, k+, Kpᵃ–, Kpᵇ+, Jsᵃ+, Jsᵇ–
African American/Black
This antibody should be suspected when a patient from India shows panagglutination at the IAT phase, with reactivity destroyed by both ficin and DTT.”
Anti-Inb
This is the minimum required amount of fibrinogen, in milligrams, that must be present in a unit of cryoprecipitated AHF according to AABB standards.
150 mg per unit