A totally revised crossmatching and antibody screening procedure has been designed using low ionic strength saline as the suspending medium for red cells in the saline and enzyme phases as well as the antiglobulin test. The replacement of Pasteur pipettes with precision samplers for all serum and red cell dispensing has resulted in improvement in the reproducibility and standardisation of techn...

Teeth can survive for a long time even after soft and skeletal tissues have been destroyed. The use of blood group substance in an individual remains unchanged throughout his life. The presence of ABO blood grouping makes it possible to determine the blood group and thereby assist in identifying even a highly decomposed body. To determine the ABO blood grouping from socket blood & extracted tee...

THIS latest edition of Tredgold and Soddy's Textbook of Mental Deficiency in many ways rcpresents a healthy departure from static descriptions of pathological states alone to a more dynamic approach to the understanding of problems of social and psychological adjustment in mentally defective individuals. This owes much to the lessons learned from Child Psychiatry, and indeed the chapters on nor...

This study was carried out to determine the blood group from dentine and pulp and to correlate the same with blood collected from respective extraction socket. 30 teeth were extracted and stored dry for 6 months. An attempt to establish the blood group from dentin and pulp was made by Absorption–Elution method. The pulp showed positive results for 27 out of 30 teeth (sensitivity 90%). Two teeth...

ABO blood groups are known to influence the plasma level of von Willebrand factor (VWF), but little is known about the relationship between ABO and coagulation factor VIII (FVIII). We analyzed the influence of ABO genotypes on VWF antigen, FVIII activity, and their quantitative relationship in 11,673 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. VWF, FVIII, and FVIII/VWF...

A 79-year-old female patient presented at the hospital with osteoarthritis. Examination of the patient revealed hemoglobin level of 10.8 g/dL, RBC count of 3.45x106/μL, WBC count of 10.1x103/μL, and platelet count of 122x103/μL. Plasma levels of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, sodium, potassium, and alanine aminotransferase were all within the normal ranges, while aspartate aminotransferase wa...

Blood group system was discovered way back in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner, Clinically, only ‘ABO’ and ‘Rhesus’ groups are of major importance. ABO blood group distribution varies in different geographical, ethnic and socio-economic groups. Apart from blood transfusion practice, knowing of the ABO and Rh blood groups were useful in population genetic studies, researching population migration patter...

BACKGROUND Up till now about 400 red cells antigen have been identified. The majority are inherited by Mendelian Fashion. The ABO blood group system was first to be identified and RH blood group system was the 4th one, both are most important for blood transfusion purposes. This study is conducted to determine the frequency of ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood groups in District Swat, NWFP, Pakistan. I...

BACKGROUND Human beings have few characteristics that are unique from others. Lip prints are one of such feature. They are not changed throughout the life and are not influenced by injuries, diseases, or environmental changes. According to the various antigen-antibody reactions in the bloodstream, different individuals have specific blood groups. AIM To study the distribution of lip print pat...