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Significance of the differences in the prevalence of anti-HLA antibodies in matched pairs of mother's and cord blood.
Immunology letters - 1 Feb 2016
Ravindranath Mepur H, Jucaud Vadim, Maehara Curtis Y, Terasaki Paul I
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The presence of IgG against pathogens in the cord blood (CB) of vaccinated mothers is attributed to transplacental transfer. However, previous studies using lymphocytotoxicity assay showed anti-HLA IgG in mother's blood (MB) but not in CB, perhaps due to non-transfer of anti-HLA IgG or assay limitations in detecting anti-HLA IgG. Anti-HLA IgG of native and purified sera of 16 MB and CB pairs were measured using...
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