Immunobiology of Transfusion Medicine

American Red Cross Blood Services. Research updating blood transfusion scientists on relevant immunobiology of blood. Implications for transplantation and therapeutics. 31 contributors, 16 U.S. DNLM: Blood Transfusion - adverse effects. 11. Use Of Hematopoietic Cells And Markers For The Detection And Quantitation Of Human In Vivo Somatic Mutation / Stephen G. Grant And Ronald H. Jensen -- 12. Immunological And Physicochemical Nature Of Antigen-antibody Interactions / Carel J. Van Oss -- 13. Monoclonal Antibodies To Human Red Blood Cell Blood Group Antigens / Marion L. Scott And Douglas Voak -- 14. Structural Analyses Of Red Blood Cell Autoantibodies / Don L. Siegel And Leslie E. Silberstein -- 15. Complement In Transfusion Medicine / John Freedman And John W. Semple -- 16. Macrophage-mediated Cell Destruction / Peter Horsewood And John G. Kelton -- 17. Cellular Immunoassays And Their Use For Predicting The Clinical Significance Of Antibodies / Barbara Zupanska -- 18. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia / George Garratty -- 19. Drug-induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia / George Garratty -- 20. Hemolytic Disease Of The Newborn / John M. Bowman -- 21. Alloimmune Refractoriness To Transfused Platelets / Sherrill J. Slichter. 22. Transfusion-induced Graft-versus-host Disease / Kathleen Sazama And Paul V. Holland -- 23. Retroviral Infections And The Immune Response / Harry E. Prince. Edited By George Garratty. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Describes the immunological aspects of blood transfusion medicine, examining the immuno-chemistry of blood group antigens, the immune destruction of cells, correlations between blood groups and disease, and the effect transfusion-induced retroviral infection has on immune response.