Distribution of A, B, AB, 0 and Rh blood groups was determined in the residents of Bahawalpur through a survey of 2036 individuals. The distribution was B, 35.26%, 0, 26.23%, A, 25.69%, and AB, 12.82%. Nintyeight percent individuals were Rh positive and 2% negative. The results when classified according to the sex showed females to be twice more Rh-negative than males and none of the 160 AB mal...

Number of researches dealing with the influence of the ABO blood group antigens on the development of the oral cancer have hypothesized that people who do not secrete these substances in the saliva are more prone to suffer from this disease. The objective of this research is to examine this hypothesis. In total 114 subjects were examined, half of which suffered from oral cancer, while the other...

Blood groups (ABO, Rh-including sub-types M-N, Duffy), secretor status and ability to taste Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) were investigated in 102 medical students of Delhi University, and the distribution was found similar to that observed in the north Indians. Both faster and secretors had highest percentage in AB, O and in rr, while the lowest values were obtained in B and R1r.

243 I magine practising medicine without access to blood transfusions. It was Karl Landsteiner, a 1930 Nobel laureate, who classified human blood into groups based on the presence of naturally occurring agglutinating antibodies, and whose findings eventually established safe transfusion procedures. Prior to his discovery, patients in need of blood received transfusions from animals such as shee...

AIM To study correlation between lip print pattern, finger print pattern and ABO blood group. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study group consisted of 27 males and 27 females who were aged between 20-40 years. Lip prints, finger prints and ABO and Rh blood groups of each individual were recorded. Lip prints were classified, based on Suzuki's and Tsuchihashi's classification and finger prints were c...

PURPOSE We minimized the influence of image quality variability, as measured by signal strength (SS), on optical coherence tomography (OCT) thickness measurements using the histogram matching (HM) method. METHODS We scanned 12 eyes from 12 healthy subjects with the Cirrus HD-OCT device to obtain a series of OCT images with a wide range of SS (maximal range, 1-10) at the same visit. For each e...