Optimal prewarming conditions for Rh antibody testing

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1521-1525

  Endoh, Teruo ^b   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^b   Tsuji, Naoki ^b   Tanabe, Hiromi ^b   Koshida, Saori ^b   Yagihashi, Atsuhito ^b   Watanabe, Naoki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMELAIN; RHESUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOMBS TEST; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING;

AGGLUTINATION; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BROMELAINS; CRYOGLOBULINS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEAT; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; ISOANTIBODIES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748334353     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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