Granulocyte serology: Current concepts and clinical signifcance

Immunohematology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-21

  Clay, M E ^a,b   Schuller, R M ^b   Bachowski, G J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloimmune neonatal neutropenia; Antibodies; Antigens; Autoimmune neutropenia; Granulocyte; HNA; Neutrophil; TRALI; Transfusion related acute lung injury

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA A1 ANTIGEN; HLA A11 ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; ALLOANTIBODY; ALLOANTIGEN;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CELL DESTRUCTION; GENOTYPE; GRANULOCYTE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; MONOCYTOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CLASSIFICATION; FORECASTING; GENETICS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FORECASTING; GENOTYPE; GRANULOCYTES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOANTIBODIES; ISOANTIGENS; NEUTROPENIA; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEROLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956595759     PISSN: 0894203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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