background & aims: mistyping either a donor or a recipient can lead to transfusion with abo incompatible blood which results in severe intravascular hemolysis and may even result in the death of the recipient. abo phenotype is one of the essential tests in immunohematology. eighty percent of blood group a and ab persons are subtype a1 and a1b, respectively. the other 20% of these blood groups a...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of A1 and A2 subgroups blood group A in healthy donors northern Pakistan.
 Study Design: Cross sectional study.
 Place Duration Study: Armed Forces Institute Transfusion, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Sep to Dec 2017.
 Methodology: The samples reported during study period at Transfusion were collected. ABO typing was performed those AB further s...

conclusions sch is associated with increased level of pla2-iia, which is independent of bmi. the stronger association of sch with pla2-iia than with hs-crp indicates that pla2-iia is an inducer of inflammation while hs-crp is not. results serum levels of tg, cholesterol, and ldl were higher in the sch group than the control group. however, there was no significant difference between the two gro...

There are conflicting views on the nature of subgroups A, and A2 of blood group A, One holds that the same determinants are present on either, but that there are fewer determinants on A2 than on A, erythrocytes. Soluble A2 and A, substances would thus have the same kinds of determinants, but in different numbers. The A1 and A2 transferases are different enzymes, but the A2 enzyme is less effici...