background: determining of gene frequencies of a, band 0 genes from abo blood group system and d and d genes from rhesus system are objectives of the present study. methods: the study was a cross sectional descriptive study. all the voluntary blood donors, 7361 people, attending to the hamadan, iran, blood bank during 1996 were studied. primary information from the sex of blood donors and their...

One of the challenges for elementary particle physics is to trace all possible sources of the violation of CP symmetry. In the standard model, CP symmetry is violated through the CKM mechanism. Although the standard model picture of CP violation has so far been confirmed by all laboratory measurements, the level of CP violation in the standard model is too small to produce the observed baryon n...

Early studies of animals bearing natural deficiencies in complement C3 and C4 and mice transiently deficient in C3 suggested that the complement system played a role in humoral immunity. Identification and characterization of the complement receptors CD21 and CD35 and their expression on B lymphocytes provided evidence for a direct role for complement in "linkage of innate and adaptive immunity...

We show that, contrary to the flavour mixing amplitude q/p, both Re(ε) and Im(ε) are observable quantities, where ε is the phase-convention-independent CP mixing. We consider semileptonic B d decays from a CP tag and build appropriate time-dependent asymmetries to separate out Re(ε) and Im(ε). " Indirect " CP violation would have in Im(ε)/(1 + |ε| 2) its most prominent manifestation in the B-sy...

In this report we describe a platelet alloantigen system that is carried on a novel platelet protein of 175 Kd. Antisera against the two alleles (Gova/Govb) were found in two patients who had received large numbers of platelet transfusions. The anti-Gov alloantibodies could not be detected using a whole platelet solid phase enzyme immunoassay, or by a platelet glycoprotein capture enzyme immuno...

In nutrient broth at 30 to 32 degrees C., the cycle of virus growth (following adsorption) in lag phase cells of B. mycoides N included a period of intracellular multiplication, ranging from 0.8 to 1.3 hours, succeeded by a sharp rise in the free phage titer and then by a slower rise or a plateau in the extracellular phage content. The yield of virus per infected cell at 30 degrees C., as deter...

The phenomenon of CP violation is crucial to understand the asymmetry between matter and antimatter that exists in the Universe. Dramatic experimental progress has been made, in particular in measurements of the behaviour of particles containing the b quark, where CP violation effects are predicted by the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism that is embedded in the standard model. The status of these me...