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Elucidation of the molecular bases of the Rh system and its contribution to transfusion and obstetric medicine—historical and current perspective: a review
2023-11-27
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Abstract: The Rh system, the most polymorphic of the human blood groups, is of major clinical interest in transfusion and obstetric medicine due to the participation of Rh antibodies in phenomena of immune mediated red blood cell destruction. Rh antigens are highly immunogenic and are often involved in haemolytic transfusion reactions and in the Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN). Since the cloning and sequen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 48ea3241-8503-5f5f-a895-fc873d121128
- DOI
- 10.21037/aob-23-4