Study of blood groups and Rhesus factor in beta thalassemia patients undergoing blood transfusions
Beta thalassemia is the most common genetic blood disease, affecting millions of people in both developing and developed countries including Iraq. Patients with thalassemia require frequent blood transfusions, which can cause a variety of complications ...
Maha Tareq Hussein
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Association Between COVID-19 and ABO Blood Groups: An Analysis on Convalescent Plasma Donors in Turkey [PDF]
Aim:To investigate if there is an association between the blood groups of convalescent plasma (CP) donors and Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection risk.Methods:Blood groups of 30605 CP donors were compared with 1316676 Turkish Red ...
Gizem Gokce Karadag +7 more
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ABO(H) blood groups and vascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
<i>Background</i>: Associations between vascular disease and ABO(H) blood groups have a long history, but no consensus exists regarding its magnitude and significance, or whether it relates to all disorders equally. An accurate calculation of
O. WU +7 more
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The phenomenon of cell chimerism in goats
Cell chimerism was diagnosed in goats with test reagents that identify erythrocyte antigens and with bovine probes that paint sex chromosomes. Same-sex and opposite-sex twins and their parents, representing the Fawn Improved breed, were used in the study.
T. Rychlik +3 more
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Prion diseases are efficiently transmitted by blood transfusion in sheep [PDF]
The emergence of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, following on from the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, led to concerns about the potential risk of iatrogenic transmission of disease by blood transfusion and the introduction of costly ...
Foster, J. +8 more
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Engaging patients from minority ethnic groups with clinical trials for blood cancer [PDF]
Clinical trials are centrally important to the process of developing new treatments and can give some patients access to treatments that they would not otherwise have.
Smart, A
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Human red blood cells at work: identification and visualization of erythrocytic eNOS activity in health and disease [PDF]
A nitric oxide synthase (NOS)-like activity has been demonstrated in human red blood cells (RBCs), but doubts about its functional significance, isoform identity and disease relevance remain.
Rodriguez-Mateos, Ana; id_orcid +33 more
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Apesar do fato de que o grupo de mulatos representa um dos mais comuns grupos raciais encontrados não só no Brasil, mas em vários outros países, existe pouca informação sobre a distribuição dos grupos sangüíneos nestes indivíduos.
Marcia C. Z. Novaretti +2 more
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Is Blood Type Linked to COVID19 Risk?
New coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 had been stressed healthcare and examining resource since their quick worldwide propagation and precedence of more at-danger people, which is a crucial quarrel.
Hevi Ghafour, Mustafa Altındiş
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Validation of a Polymerase Chain Reaction technique for Kidd blood group genotyping [PDF]
The Kidd blood group antigens, Jkª and Jkᵇ , are two of the main surface markers which are found on the membrane of red blood cells. The determination of whether a donor or a recipient has the Jkª and/or the Jkᵇ antigens is crucially important to ...
Xuereb, Karl +2 more
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