Article
The detection of blood group phenotypes using paper diagnostics.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Feb 2015
Then W L, Li M, McLiesh H, Shen W, Garnier G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Paper biodiagnostics for blood typing are novel, cheap, fast and easy to use. Agglutinated red blood cells cannot travel through the porous structure of paper, indicating a positive antibody-antigen interaction has occurred. Conversely, non-agglutinated blood can disperse and wick through the paper structure with the ease to indicate a negative result. This principle has been...
Topics
- Blood Group Antigens
- Blood Grouping and Crossmatching
- Chromatography, Paper
- Humans
- Phenotype