Rh Blood Group System
The second major blood grouping system is the Rhesus (Rh) system. Philip Levine, in 1939, discovered that the sera of most women who gave birth to infants with hemolytic disease … Read more
Immunology is an emerging branch of medical science that deals with studies related to different aspects of the immune system like the cells, structure, function, response against antigens, and disorders.
The second major blood grouping system is the Rhesus (Rh) system. Philip Levine, in 1939, discovered that the sera of most women who gave birth to infants with hemolytic disease … Read more
Immune Response is a mechanism of how the immune system of the host’s body responds to a harmful foreign particle or pathogen (antigen) in the body. It entails recognizing the … Read more
Major Histocompatibility Class I (MHC Class I) This is the first class of the MHC molecule that encodes the glycoproteins that are expressed on the surface of nearly all nucleated … Read more
The major histocompatibility complex can be defined as a tightly linked cluster of genes whose products play an important role in intercellular recognition and in discrimination between self and non-self. … Read more
Most of the immunological techniques are based on antigen-antibody reactions. Precipitation reactions are one of the important reactions that occur when antigen and antibody come to contact. When a soluble … Read more
Precipitation Reaction is a type of antigen-antibody reaction, in which the antigen occurs in a soluble form. When a soluble antigen reacts with its specific antibody, at an optimum temperature … Read more
As much as immunity curtails to the 430 B.C, significantly improved immunity phenomenal were made in the 18th century starting with Edward Jenner in 1798 after he noticed that milkmaids … Read more
Neutralization means the reduction of the effect of any component. Neutralization is one of the Ag-Ab reactions which aids in reducing the effects of viral antigens or viruses and toxins … Read more
All blood cells are produced by a mechanism known as hematopoiesis, arising from a single cell type known as a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC). Stem cells are cells that differentiate … Read more
Immunoelectrophoresis refers to the process in which an antigen mixture is first separated into its component parts by electrophoresis and then tested by immunodiffusion. The electrophoresed antigen mixture in agarose … Read more