Studies on the isolation and identification of fetal nucleated red blood cells in the circulation of pregnant women before and after chorion villus sampling

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 376-384

  Christensen, Britta ^a   Kolvraa S ^b,c   Lykke Hansen, L ^a   Lorch T ^e   Gohel, D ^f   Smidt Jensen, S ^d   Bang, J ^a   Philip, J ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e MetaSystems GmbH   (Germany)

^f Immunicon Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated scanning; Epsilon globin; Fetal blood; Fetal nucleated red blood cells; Gamma globin; Hemoglobin antibodies; Immunophenotyping; Maternal blood

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; EPSILON GLOBIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS CELL; FETUS CIRCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SEPARATION; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0041660639     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071983     Document Type: Article

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