Background: Fetal Growth restriction (FGR) is associated with thrombosis of the placenta and an increased risk of subsequent vascular disease in the mother and fetus. The products of interactions between ABO(H), Lewis and Secretor genes are also associated with thrombosis and vascular disease risk. Objectives/Methods: A prospective ...

ABO blood groups and secretor status are important in clinical and forensic medicine and in relation to some diseases. There are geographic and racial differences in their frequencies, but the frequency of secretor status in different ABO blood group systems has not been determined yet. Therefore, the aim of this ...

The fucosylated ABH antigens, which constitute the molecular basis for the ABO blood group system, are also expressed in salivary secretions and gastrointestinal epithelia in individuals of positive secretor status; however, the biological function of the ABO blood group system is unknown. Gastric mucosa biopsies of 41 Rhesus monkeys ...

... albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) on Human Skin Among ABO Blood Groups, Secretors or Nonsecretors, and ABH AntigensYoshikazu Shiraia,b, ... Japan Abstract We demonstrated in this study that blood group...

Intestinal microbiota plays an important role in human health, and its composition is determined by several factors, such as diet and host genotype. However, thus far it has remained unknown which host genes are determinants for the microbiota composition. We studied the diversity and abundance of dominant bacteria and bifidobacteria from the faecal samples of 71 healthy individuals. In this ...

Percentage distributions of nine genetic markers, including ABO blood type, secretor ability, haptoglobin type, transferrin type, and group specific component type, are presented and discussed by age, sex, race, geographic region, family income and parent...

BACKGROUND: Major ABO mismatch in hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (HPCT) is associated with a range of immunohematologic consequences including progenitor cell infusion (PCI)-related hemolysis, delayed red blood cell engraftment, and pure red cell aplasia (PRCA). Although pretransplant (recipient) isoagglutinin reduction may be associated with decreased ...

... J. LePendu, and X. Jiang, 2003: Noroviruses Bind to Human ABO, Lewis ... and antigenicity of a snow mountain agent-like calicivirus capsid protein. ...

BackgroundSubjects with non-O ABO blood group alleles have increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Glycosyltransferase activity is greater for the A₁ versus A₂ variant, while O01 and O02 variants are nonfunctioning. We hypothesized: (1) A¹ allele would confer greater risk than A² allele, ...

A new method for ABO and Lewis typing of body fluids is described. It combines the advantages of a good antigen binding to nitrocellulose membranes, the need of only very small amounts of stain material and the high sensitivity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antigen detection. This is of special interest because conventional ...

Contents: Gammelgaard thesis; ABO system--Dunsfore Memorial; Secretion of blood group substances and Lewis system; M N and P systems; Anthropologic and other applications of blood grouping data; Landsteiner centennial; Grethe Hartmann monograph.

The distributions of ABO, rhesus, and Lewis blood group antigens were studied in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, alcoholic pancreatitis, chronic active hepatitis, and primary biliary cirrhosis. There were no differences in frequencies of ABO and rhesus blood group antigens between the groups or in comparison with a control group of ...

Immunocytochemical studies were performed on tracheal wall samples embedded in paraffin; the samples were taken at 23 autopsies. In all cases, the red cells had been typed in postmortem serological studies as being Le(a-b-). Blood-group antigens were demonstrated by the indirect immunoperoxidase technique, using monoclonal Anti-A, Anti-B, Anti-Lea and Anti-Leb; H was detected by UEA 1. The ...

Norovirus is a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans. A norovirus outbreak occurred in Ohio in January 2010. Stool and saliva samples were obtained from six infected individuals. The full-length genomes of two representative strains (HS206 and HS210) were characterized. They belonged to GII.12 in the capsid but GII.g in the RNA polymerase region. Interestingly, an immunocompetent ...

An unselected series of 285 patients with Paget's disease of bone has been studied, of whom 54% were male and 46% female. The youngest was aged 25 years at diagnosis and the oldest 95. Of the patients 109 (38-2%) had never suffered serious symptoms. These diagnosed cases certainly represent only a small proportion, perhaps 10-15%, of all those with Paget's disease in the community from which they ...

Aqueous extracts of human neoplastic and adjacent normal colonic mucosa were investigated for hemagglutination inhibition of both the anti-A serum and the Dolichos biflorus lectin. The anti-A antiserum was inhibited by the extracts from neoplastic tissues to a much higher extent than by that from normal mucosa; the inhibition was strictly dependent on the blood group and the ...

Genetic variation in both innate and adaptive immune systems is associated with Crohn's disease (CD) susceptibility, but much of the heritability to CD remains unknown. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 896 CD cases and 3204 healthy controls all of Caucasian origin as defined by multidimensional scaling. We found supportive evidence for 21 out of 40 CD loci identified in a ...

Genetic variation in both innate and adaptive immune systems is associated with Crohn's disease (CD) susceptibility, but much of the heritability to CD remains unknown. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 896 CD cases and 3204 healthy controls all of Caucasian origin as defined by multidimensional scaling. We found supportive evidence for 21 out of 40 CD loci identified in a ...

Susceptibility to norovirus (NoV), a major pathogen of epidemic gastroenteritis, is associated with histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs), which are also cell attachment factors for this virus. GII.4 NoV strains are predominantly associated with worldwide NoV epidemics with a periodic emergence of new variants. The sequence variations in the surface-exposed P domain of the capsid protein resulting in ...

Studies of ABO, Rh, MN, rho, Lewis blood groups in coal miners suffering from anthracosilicosis and in reference healthy individuals proved that MM phenotypes are predisposed to anthracosilicosis and MN phenotypes could be resistant to the disease. These results could be valuable for prevention of this occupational disease among coal industry workers. ...

... Title : ABO ANTIBODIES. I. METHODS FOR QUANTIFICATION OF ABO HEMOLYSINS AND SOLUBLE BLOOD GROUP SUBSTANCES A AND B. ...

Comparative study of the oligosaccharide profiles of individual human milk revealed the presence of three different patterns. Four oligosaccharides containing the Fuc?1-2Gal group were missing in the milk of non-secretor, and three oligosaccharides containing the Fuc?1-4GlcNAc group were missing in the milk of Lewis negative individuals. Disappearance of ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease that increases viscoelasticity of pulmonary secretions. Affected patients are required to use therapeutic aerosols continuously. The expression of ABH glycoconjugates in exocrine secretions determines the nature of part of the carbohydrates present in these secretions, allowing the classification of individuals into the so-called ...

A blood group substance (BGS), a protein with ABH antigenic activity, was isolated from human seminal plasma and designated as p 84 (Sato, 1995). We have developed a method for determining the ABO blood type of semen by performing a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in which p 84 is captured with an anti-p 84 monoclonal antibody, and evaluated the specificity ...

About 20%-25% of Caucasian individuals are nonsecretors who fail to express soluble A, B, H, and Lewis b histo-blood group antigens in secretory organs and secretory fluids because of the absence of the Secretor gene (FUT2)-encoded alpha(1,2)-fucosyltransferase (Se enzyme) activity. Recently, the FUT2 and a pseudogene have been isolated, and an Se ...

Noroviruses, an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans, recognize the histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) as host susceptible factors in a strain-specific manner. The crystal structures of the HBGA-binding interfaces of two A/B/H-binding noroviruses, the prototype Norwalk virus (GI.1) and a predominant GII.4 strain (VA387), have been elucidated. In this study we determined the crystal ...

Noroviruses, an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans, recognize the histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) as host susceptible factors in a strain-specific manner. The crystal structures of the HBGA-binding interfaces of two A/B/H-binding noroviruses, the prototype Norwalk virus (GI.1) and a predominant GII.4 strain (VA387), have been elucidated. In this study we determined the crystal ...

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs)a perform a number of functions including serving as prebiotics to stimulate the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, as receptor analogs to inhibit binding of pathogens, and as substances that promote postnatal brain development. There is further evidence that HMOs participate in modulating the human immune system. Because the absorption, catabolism and ...

Historically, forensic and clinical laboratories utilize serological techniques to identify ABO blood types. These techniques rely on the detection of ABO-associated proteins and are sensitive with very accurate results. This laboratory has simplified the identification of ABO types by taking advantage of previously reported ...