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Biological and clinical aspects of ABO blood group system.
The journal of medical investigation : JMI - 1 Aug 2008
Hosoi Eiji
Abstract excerpt
The ABO blood group was discovered in 1900 by Austrian scientist, Karl Landsteiner. At present, the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) approves as 29 human blood group systems. The ABO blood group system consists of four antigens (A, B, O and AB). These antigens are known as oligosaccharide antigens, and widely expressed on the membranes of red cell and tissue cells as well as, in the saliva and...
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