Polymorphism of the second component of human complement (C2). Observation of the rare phenotype (C2 2 (= C2 B) and data on the localization of the C2 locus in the HLA region.

abstract：:Since 2000, Quality Assurance (QA) exercises for the detection and identification of granulocyte antibodies and DNA typing for human neutrophil antigens (HNA) have been distributed within the International Granulocyte Immunobiology Workshops, which are linked to International Society of Blood Transfusion. The exercise...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Lucas G,Porcelijn L,Fung YL,Green F,Reil A,Hopkins M,Schuller R,Green A,de Haas M,Bux J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Allergic transfusion reactions (ATRs) and febrile non-haemolytic transfusion reactions (FNHTRs) are the two major types of transfusion-related adverse reactions (TRARs). Although prestorage leucocyte reduction and diversion of the first aliquot of blood (LR/D) could reduce FNHTRs and bacterial...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Yanagisawa R,Shimodaira S,Sakashita K,Hidaka Y,Kojima S,Nishijima F,Hidaka E,Shiohara M,Nakamura T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Gene conversion events between GYPA and GYPB or GYPA and GYPE are facilitated by the close chromosomal proximity and high degree of sequence homology and can lead to the formation of GP hybrid genes. Discrepant results between blood group genotyping and haemagglutination in 22 random blood don...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Polin H,Danzer M,Reiter A,Brisner M,Gaszner W,Weinberger J,Gabriel C

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (ELAT) used to detect and quantify the amount of IgG antibodies on red blood cells (RBC) is sensitive to hemolysis and erythrocyte enzymatic activities. We describe a new ELAT by using glucose oxidase (GO) linked to antihuman IgG. The optical density base line of GO-ELAT, al...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Rigal D,Monestier M,Lafont S,Raffin T,Got A,Meyer F,Jouvenceaux A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood transfusions are associated with clinical phenomena which are attributable to immune suppression. Since suppression of immune function is associated with a high risk of spontaneous malignancies, we studied T cell subsets and natural killer (NK) cytotoxicity in colorectal cancer patients and correlated the result...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Tartter PI,Steinberg B,Barron DM,Martinelli G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The study was designed to evaluate whether volume replacement following blood donation can prevent arterial hypotension in autologous blood donors with cardiovascular disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred nineteen autologous blood donors with known cardiovascular disease were randomly al...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Kasper SM,Dahlmann H,Mellinghoff H,Ellering J,Baumann M,Buzello W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassays were prepared using two anti-A and one anti-B reagents. The specificity of the procedures was assessed with 13 artificial antigens. The amounts of A and B natural antigens in saliva of ABH secretors of known Lewis phenotype were measured with these assays. The results confirmed that the average amoun...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Le Pendu J,Lemieux RU,Dalix AM,Lambert F,Oriol R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic antibody removal using antigen-positive red cells was applied to a pregnant woman who has high titered IgG anti-P and had lost all of 4 previous fetuses in P-incompatible pregnancy. The treatment was commenced at the 6th week of gestation and was intensively performed 93 times up to the 35th week. The volu...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Yoshida H,Ito K,Emi N,Kanzaki H,Matsuura S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Baxter's methylene blue (MB) photoinactivation of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) is a method that effectively removes any intracellular potentially infectious agent, such as prions, by filtration combined with an improved photochemical virus inactivation on a single unit of FFP. The purpose of this study was to d...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Simonsen AC,Sørensen H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a predominant contaminant of platelet concentrates (PCs), outcompeting other skin flora bacteria such as Staphylococcus capitis. The accumulation-associated protein (Aap), encoded by the aap gene, is involved in formation of bacterial aggregates (biofilms) in S. e...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Alabdullatif M,Ramirez-Arcos S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously described methods of phenotyping red cells sensitised with IgG using the indirect antiglobulin test required the dissociation of the coating protein. Based on an entirely different principle, Fab fragments of anti-human IgG (Fab anti-IgG) were used to block the antiglobulin binding sites on cell-bound IgG m...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Henry SM,Baird SJ,Woodfield DG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Ross River virus (RRV) is an enveloped, RNA alphavirus in the same antigenic group as chikungunya virus. Australia records an annual average of 5000 laboratory-confirmed RRV infections. While RRV is currently geographically restricted to the Western Pacific, the capacity of arboviruses for rap...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Seed CR,Hoad VC,Faddy HM,Kiely P,Keller AJ,Pink J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:White blood cell (WBC) fragments in platelet concentrates (PCs) may induce allo-immunization in the recipient. MATERIALS AND METHODS:As the level of WBC fragments can differ between PCs produced using different methods, we compared PCs prepared by using the buffy-coat method (BC-PCs) in plasm...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Dijkstra-Tiekstra MJ,van der Schoot CE,Pietersz RN,Reesink HW

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Hepcidin is the main hormone that regulates iron balance. Its lowering favours digestive iron absorption in cases of iron deficiency or enhanced erythropoiesis. The careful dosage of this small peptide promises new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Its measurement is progressively being v...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Waldvogel S,Rochat B,Peduzzi D,Vaucher P,Tissot JD,Favrat B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality management is an ongoing development resulting in consistency products and services and ever increasing customer satisfaction. The ultimum is Total Quality Management. Quality systems and quality management in transfusion medicine have gained considerable attention since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Wher...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Smit-Sibinga CT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:There is increasing interest in the development of rapid and reliable techniques for human platelet alloantigen (HPA) typing. This study investigates the reliability of flow cytometry for large-scale immunophenotyping of platelet alloantigens. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We used flow cytometry and ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Tazzari PL,Cirillo D,Bontadini A,Ricci F,Masi R,Conte R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody (MAb) UMRh, was prepared by immunizing Balb/c mice with the Jurkat T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell line. The MAb UMRh is directed against a widely distributed Rh-related cell surface antigen, present on red blood cells (RBCs) expressing the more common Rh phenotypes. T...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Poss MT,Swanson JL,Telen MJ,Lasky LC,Vallera DA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the attitudes, beliefs and motivations of blood donors evolve over time. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using questionnaires a 7-year longitudinal study of a cohort of 126 donors was performed to gather their sociodemographic characteristics and their attitudes, beliefs and motivations relating ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Fernández-Montoya A,López-Berrio A,Luna del Castillo JD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new granulocyte collection method employing discontinuous flow centrifugation and low donor dose of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) is presented. Following the procedure, the increase in serum polysaccharide concentration was 100 mg/dl, about 20% of that seen after standard discontinuous flow leukapheresis. The average ef...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Szymanski IO

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of non-A, non-B hepatitis transmission by an intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) preparation was assessed in a prospective multicenter trial in 68 patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders (40 children or adolescents and 28 adults). During the 4-week prestudy evaluation period the clinical examinations a...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Imbach P,Perret BA,Babington R,Kaminski K,Morell A,Heiniger HJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging data in animal models and humans suggest that pathogen-associated and damage-associated molecular patterns variably impact RBC alloantibody formation. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that vaccinations may enhance immune responses to transfused RBCs. The Pneumovax23 vaccine decreased the magnitude of a...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Natarajan P,Santhanakrishnan M,Tormey CA,Hendrickson JE

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new high-frequency antigen related to the Kell system was defined by the serum of a patient, Mrs. Sub. The antigen was lacking from her cells and those of one of her three siblings. All random cells tested were incompatible with her serum as were bloods of other various "null" phenotypes, but Ko bloods were compatib...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Sabo B,McCreary J,Stroup M,Smith DE,Weidner JG

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of seeds from 79 plant species were tested for agglutinating and lytic activity with the red cells of ten vertebrate species (man, monkey, rabbit, rat, goat, sheep, guinea pig, horse, fowl, dog). Of these extracts, 24 were hemagglutinating and 15 were hemolytic. The results suggest that some lectins can serve...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Bhalla V,Gaur V,Bhatia K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of temperature and pH in biological systems comprises two components. Temperature change may perturb the pH of solutions, and it may change the pKa of some ionizable groups that are involved in enzyme catalysis. The pH optima of single reactions and whole pathways are therefore temperature sensitive. T...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Guppy M,Attwood PV,Hansen IA,Sabaratnam R,Frisina J,Whisson ME

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN) is caused by maternal alloimmunization against red blood cell antigens. In severe cases, HDFN may lead to fetal anaemia with a risk for fetal death and to severe forms of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia with a risk for kernicterus. Most severe cases are caused by anti-D,...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： de Haas M,Thurik FF,Koelewijn JM,van der Schoot CE

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:There are no randomized trials comparing intravenous iron to RBC transfusion for the treatment of severe postpartum anaemia. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of randomizing women with severe postpartum anaemia secondary to postpartum haemorrhage to RBC transfusion ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Holm C,Thomsen LL,Norgaard A,Langhoff-Roos J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For some unknown reason humans may 'spontaneously' produce high amounts of neutralizing autoantibodies to a number of growth factors and cytokines. Reaching a certain high level the antibodies render the person cytokine deficient, mostly without overt clinical manifestations. The autoantibodies in question a...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hansen MB,Galle P,Salomo M,Svenson M,Dickmeiss E,Gimsing P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A large number of European blood centres, including our own, use the buffy-coat method for platelet production. In this article we describe a previously unnoticed phenomenon shown by a proportion of buffy-coats, which display an unusually bright cherry colour and low platelet counts. MATERIAL...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Rebulla P,Smacchia C,Greppi N,Porretti L,Lopa R,Cernuschi M,Sirchia G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The low prevalence antigen, Be(a), is produced by a complex that also produces weak c, e and f (ce). We report here the molecular basis associated with Be(a) antigen expression. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Peripheral blood samples from four Be(a+) probands were tested. Haemagglutination, gDNA extra...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hue-Roye K,O'Shea K,Gillett R,Wadsworth LD,Hume H,Barnes J,Kinney J,Hodgins K,Fuchisawa A,Lomas-Francis C,Reid M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Severe anaemia is an important cause of mortality in developing countries. However, few studies have explored the use of and possibilities for blood transfusion services. The aims of this study are to explore the use of blood transfusion services at a hospital in sub-Saharan Africa and to asse...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Bugge HF,Karlsen NC,Oydna E,Rake MM,Wexels N,Bendabenda J,Roald B,Heier HE,Chisuwo L,Jourdan PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00