The correlation between ABO/Rh blood groups and diabetes mellitus is still controversial. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between ABO/Rhesus blood groups and diabetes in Turkish population. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Istanbul Medeniyet University Göztepe Education and Training Hospital's Diabetes Units. The study group was composed of 421 patients with t...

BACKGROUND Molecular genotyping of ABO blood group system has identified more than 60 "O" group alleles based on the single-nucleotide polymorphisms present in the ABO gene. Heterogeneity of O group alleles has been observed in various countries from South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. India is a vast country with more than 1300 million population which is divided into various ethnic ...

Tumor progression is often associated with altered glycosylation of the cell-surface proteins and lipids. The peripheral part of these cell-surface glycoconjugates often carries carbohydrate structures related to the ABO and Lewis blood-group antigens. The expression of histo-blood-group antigens in normal human tissues is dependent on the type of differentiation of the epithelium. In most huma...

ABO antibodies (isoagglutinins) represent a formidable barrier to optimizing live donation and organ distribution. Blood group antigens are expressed on the endothelium of solid organs, and transplantation across a blood group barrier can result in hyperacute or acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR). Based on blood group distributions in the United States, there is a 36% probability that any ...

For many years beef blood has served as the medium for abstract experimentation on blood. The methods of analysis which have been so highly developed during t,he past 10 years have been largely worked out on the blood from slaughtered cattle. Much of our fundamental knowledge of blood chemistry has been acquired from the same source. But recently in undertaking the study of the effect of certai...