Blood groups: genetics and physiology

Crop Genetics And Physiology

The blood groups. Three fundamental problems--serology, genetics and nomenclature.

By ALEXANDER S. WIENKE T HE TURN OF THE present century witnessed two events of fundamental interest to immunohematology-the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of heredity, and the announcement by Dr. Karl Landsteiner’ that the serum of one normal individual can agglutinate the red cells of another normal individual. In 1901, based on this reaction of isoagglutination, Landsteiner2 identified three b...

Blood groups: In Health and Diseases

ABO blood type antigens are polymorphic, inherited structures presented on the surface of red blood cells. Although ABO blood group antigens is the most important antigens in transfusion medicine, its main role is not clearly clarified. Correlation between ABO blood group and susceptibility to certain infectious and non-infectious diseases is a controversial issue. Since, lack of blood type ant...

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

Physiology and genetics of methylotrophic bacteria.

Methylotrophic bacteria comprise a broad range of obligate aerobic microorganisms, which are able to proliferate on (a number of) compounds lacking carbon-carbon bonds. This contribution will essentially be limited to those organisms that are able to utilize methanol and will cover the physiological, biochemical and genetic aspects of this still diverse group of organisms. In recent years much ...