The LW blood group system: A review

Immunohematology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 136-142

  Grandstaff Moulds, M K ^a  

^a John Moulds Reference Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHROMIUM 51; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DITHIOTHREITOL; FICIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PAPAIN; RHESUS ANTIGEN; TRYPSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD GROUP LUTHERAN SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP RH; BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COOMBS TEST; DEGLYCOSYLATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LANDSTEINER WIENER BLOOD GROUP SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANIMALS; BALTIC STATES; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ERYTHROID CELLS; ERYTHROPOIESIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84864778475     PISSN: 0894203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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