THE LIVER has long been regarded as a privileged organ which can be transplanted across incompatible ABO blood groups with little risk of hyperacute rejection. l However, in a recent review of 671 first, second, and third liver transplants we found a significant advantage for ABO donor-recipient identity for primary liver transplants.2 Although a large number of ABO mismatched grafts were succe...

Organization citizenship behavior (OCB) is a term that encompasses voluntary positive behavior of employees of an organization, which support and benefit the organizations. The employees who engage in organizational citizenship behavior may not always be the top performers but they are ones who always make effort to ‘go the extra mile’ or ‘go above and beyond’ the minimum performance required t...

ABO antigens are known to be oligosaccharide antigens, and are widely expressed on the membranes of red blood cells and tissue cells. Therefore, the determining ABO blood group antigens is important in both transfusion and organ transplantation, and is one of the markers used for personal identification in forensics. The ABO blood group is currently determined by the presence of A and B antigen...

subh al-'a'sh? f? san?'at al-insh?' is one of the greatest encyclopedias produced in the islamic civilization before the ninth century after hegira. the book addresses a plethora of historical, scientific and literary issues in which the writer explains the administration mechanism of d?w?n al-insh?' (a secretariat keeping the records of non-financial and non-military c...

Otkrićem ABO sustava krvnih grupa 1900. godine austrijski liječnik Karl Landsteiner utemeljio je transfuzijsko liječenje. Radom Yamamota 1990. klonirani su ABO geni, što je omogućilo naprednije strukturne i funkcionalne analize ABO sustava (1). Humani ABO gen smješten je na kromosomu 9 (9q34.1-q34.2). Sadrži 7 eksona i 6 introna koji obuhvaćaju 18 kb genomske DNA. Svaki tip krvne grupe sustava ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to elucidate clinical trial efficacy, safety, and dosing practices of abobotulinumtoxinA (ABO) treatment in adult patients with blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. To date, most literature reviews for blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm have examined the effectiveness of all botulinum neurotoxin type A products as a class. However, differences in dosing units and recommend...

Lower levels of factor VIII and von Willebrand factor (vWF) have been reported in individuals with blood type O compared with individuals with other ABO blood types. However, this relationship has been demonstrated only by association studies and not by linkage studies. Also, it is not clear whether the ABO locus exerts a functional effect directly on these plasma factors or whether the ABO loc...

H uman leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching is critically important for successful hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplantation because the rates of engraftment and transplant outcomes are strongly influenced by the degree of match. This is largely because HLA antigens are expressed on immature pluripotent stem cells. In contrast, ABO incompatibility is not a barrier to successful HPC transp...

BACKGROUND Discrepant results in antigen and reverse ABO blood typing are often caused by a variant ABO gene. Molecular analysis can help to characterize such variants. Here, we describe the identification of a novel ABO gene variant in a patient with aberrant ABO phenotype and discrepant genotyping results. METHODS A patient with discrepant results in automated forward and reverse ABO phenot...

T Ferdous al-Hekma (Paradise of Wisdom) is one of the oldest medical texts in the Islamic world written in Arabic in 850 AD by Ali ibn Raban Tabari. He was a Persian physician who moved from Tabaristan (Mazandaran province of modern day Iran) to Samarra during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-861 AD). We studied the book of Ferdous al-Hekma fil-Tibb, in an attempt to comprehen...