We read with great interest the report entitled “ABO blood types: impact on development of prosthetic mechanical valve thrombosis” by Astarcıoğlu et al. (1) published in this current issue of The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology. ABO antigens are ubiquitously expressed on wide variety of eukaryotic cells, as well as erythroid/myeloid cell lineages of human bone marrow. Relevant to their involvem...

We examined the behavior of an autosomal recessive maternal-effect mutation, abnormal-oocyte (abo), that is located in the euchromatin of the left arm of chromosome 2. When homozygous in females, abo results in a marked reduction in the probability that an egg produced by a mutant mother will develop into an adult. However, this probability is increased if the fertilizing sperm delivers to the ...

Background—The purported advantage of ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) listing is to reduce wait times and wait-list mortality among infants awaiting heart transplantation. We sought to describe recent trends in ABO-I listing for US infants and to determine the impact of ABO-I listing on wait times and wait-list mortality. Methods and Results—In this multicenter retrospective cohort study using Organ P...

Recent studies have reported that the ABO gene can affect circulating expression levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) and soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) in Caucasians. However, several factors may affect the association, including the distribution and variations of the ABO gene, ethnic diversity and the inflammatory response status. The aim of the present study was to...

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the present article deals with the position and features of imam ali´s instructions to malik al- ashtar in islamic sources. it studies the sources of imam ali´s instructions to malik including sunni and shiite ones, their position in jurisprudential and exegetical sources, and their popularity in different parts of the muslim world. furthermore, taking the chain of transmission of these instruc...

resistance literature in many arab and non-arab is extensively used as a recent style of literature. some poets applying this style played an important role in the imagination of beautiful and dynamic visualization, and the undertaking lebanese poet, mohammad ali shams al-din is considered as one of them. he also considers other modern contemporary poets, in order to express his viewpoints by u...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of adult ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).ABO-incompatible LDLT is an aggressive treatment that crosses the blood-typing barrier for saving lives from liver diseases. Although graft and patient survival have been improved recently by various treatments, the results of adult ABO-incompatible LDLT require further ev...