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Preface
Contributors
1 Carbohydrate-Associated Blood Group Antigens: The ABO, H/Se, and Lewis Loci 3
2 Glycophorins: Structures and Antigens 37
3 Sialic Acid-Dependent Red Blood Cell Antigens 69
4 Erythrocyte Blood Group Antigens Associated with Phosphatidylinositol Glycan-Linked Proteins 97
5 The Rh Blood Groups 111
6 Platelet and Neutrophil Alloantigens: Their Nature and Role in Immune-Mediated Cytopenias 149
7 Cellular and Molecular Biology of Senescent Cell Antigen 173
8 Do Blood Groups Have a Biological Role? 201
9 Associations of Red Blood Cell Membrane Abnormalities with Blood Group Phenotype 257
10 Association of Blood Group Antigens with Immunologically Important Proteins 273
11 Use of Hematopoietic Cells and Markers for the Detection and Quantitation of Human In Vivo Somatic Mutation 299
12 Immunological and Physicochemical Nature of Antigen-Antibody Interactions 327
13 Monoclonal Antibodies to Human Red Blood Cell Blood Group Antigens 365
14 Structural Analyses of Red Blood Cell Autoantibodies 387
15 Complement in Transfusion Medicine 403
16 Macrophage-Mediated Cell Destruction 435
17 Cellular Immunoassays and Their Use for Predicting the Clinical Significance of Antibodies 465
18 Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia 493
19 Drug-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia 523
20 Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn 553
21 Alloimmune Refractoriness to Transfused Platelets 597
22 Transfusion-Induced Graft-Versus-Host Disease 631
23 Retroviral Infections and the Immune Response 657
Index 699