LAMP 4177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blood Donation, Lipopolysaccharide, Cross-Matching

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O is the universal donor b/c we are all part blood type o. On the red cell there is an h antigen. On the a gene produces an enzyme that transforms the h antigen to the a antigen. On the b gene produces an enzyme that transforms the h antigen to the b antigen. Not all of the a or b gene transforms the h antigen to a or b, it stays as the o antigen = reason why we are all o and o is the universal donor. You make the opposite antibody of what you are. Group ab makes no abo antibodies (universal plasma donor) Group o makes anti-b &anti-a antibodies (universal blood donor) These naturally occurring antibodies are present in nature. Definitions: naturally occurring antibody (you just start having them) Antibodies that form from exposure to foreign (but within the same species) rbc antigens that you don"t have. Rbc exposure must occur through pregnancy or transfusion.

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