The use of intracellular dyes to create a multiplexed flow cytometry-based red blood cell phenotyping assay.

The use of intracellular dyes allowed a fourfold increase in the throughput of our previously described flow cytometry-based red blood cell antigen phenotyping method. The described method allows up to 48 patients to be simultaneously phenotyped using a single 96-well microplate. Furthermore, additional fluorescent dyes could potentially increase the throughput exponentially.