Use of a phycoerythrin-conjugated anti-glycophorin A monoclonal antibody as a double label to improve the accuracy of FMH quantification by flow cytometry

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-160

  Lloyd Evans, P ^a   Guest, A R ^a   Austin, E B ^b   Scott, M L ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b Manchester Blood Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dual labelling; Fetomaternal haemorrhage; Flow cytometry; Quantification

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHYCOERYTHRIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCOPHORIN; HUMANS; MICE; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PREGNANCY; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 0033153339     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.1999.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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