Improved specificity of NRBC detection in chorionic villus sample supernatant fluids using anti-zeta and anti-epsilon monoclonal antibodies

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 291-295

  Mavrou, Ariadni ^a,c   Kolialexi, Angeliki ^a   Zheng, Yun Ling ^b   Metaxotou, Catherine ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anti epsilon antibody; Anti zeta antibody; Chorionic villus sample mosaicism; Chorionic villus sample supernatant fluid; Fetal hemoglobin; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN F; HEMOGLOBIN GAMMA CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GLOBINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032879591     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020942     Document Type: Article

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