Histocompatibility Testing: A Fundamental Aspect of Renal Transplant Workup
Histocompatibility testing is pivotal in any renal transplantation workup, aimed at enhancing prospective donor recipient compatibility and improving transplant outcomes.
Vikash Chandra Mishra +2 more
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Deceased organ donation: laboratory testing and histocompatibility assessment in Korea
Histocompatibility testing is essential for ensuring both safety and fairness in deceased donor organ transplantation. In Korea, such testing is strictly regulated under the Organ Transplant Act and centralized within organ procurement organization ...
Borae G. Park, Samuel Lee
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External proficiency testing for histocompatibility and immunogenetics in today and future [PDF]
The Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics laboratories provide disease association and pharmacogenetic analyses as well as the tests required for transplantation immunology and transfusion medicine.
Fatma Savran Oguz
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Gene duplication and fragmentation in the zebra finch major histocompatibility complex [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Due to its high polymorphism and importance for disease resistance, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been an important focus of many vertebrate genome projects.
Tina Graves +54 more
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Evidence for directional selection at a novel major histocompatibility class I marker in wild common frogs (Rana temporaria) exposed to a viral pathogen (Ranavirus). [PDF]
(c) 2009 Teacher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Trenton W J Garner +11 more
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Definitions of histocompatibility typing terms: Harmonization of Histocompatibility Typing Terms Working Group [PDF]
Histocompatibility testing for stem cell and solid organ transplantation has become increasingly complex as newly discovered human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles are described.
Cynthia Taves +23 more
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Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males : experimental evidence [PDF]
The role of genetic benefits in female mate choice remains a controversial aspect of sexual selection theory. In contrast to “good allele” models of sexual selection, “compatible allele” models of mate choice predict that females prefer mates with ...
Bryja, Pepa +15 more
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Antidrug antibody (ADA) responses impact drug safety, potency, and efficacy. It is generally assumed that ADA responses are associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II-restricted CD4+ T-cell reactivity.
Sinu Paul +5 more
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For patients with end stage renal disease, kidney transplant offers significant survival and quality-of-life advantages compared with dialysis. But for patients seeking transplant who are highly sensitized, waiting times have traditionally been long and
Daniela Alfere +6 more
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Cytomegalovirus prevents antigen presentation by blocking the transport of peptide-loaded major histocompatibility complex class I molecules into the medial-Golgi compartment [PDF]
Selective expression of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) immediate-early (IE) genes leads to the presentation by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule L a of a peptide derived from MCMV IE protein pp89 (Reddehase, M. J., J.
Koszinowski, Ulrich H. +13 more
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