Word: hla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Majewski and her husband first volunteered as donors 10 years ago, when a friend asked them to help a family member with leukemia. They underwent initial blood tests, known as HLA typing, for a series of four genetically determined traits that, along with two more traits tested at a second level, must closely match those of the patient for a transplant to be accepted by the body. Neither Teri Majewski nor her husband matched, but they let the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry keep their records...
...order to be a successful match, all six antigens on the donor's human leukocyte antibody (HLA) need to match Alan's antigens...
...more effective we are in dissuading investors, like Pepsi, from backing the military regime, the quicker we will be able to restore democracy peacefully," Minister of Finance Bo Hla-Tint wrote...
...response to the pleas of Hla-Tint and activist groups may have more than economic clout with PepsiCo...
...HLA antigen functions by binding to a fragment of a foreign molecule--in the study, a fragment of the flu virus--and alerting nearby T cells of its presence...