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The Quantitative Relationship of the Rh-like (LW) and D Antigens of Human Erythrocytes

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PREVIOUS investigations have shown that the injection of human D-positive and negative, rhesus and other monkey red cells into guinea-pigs produces an Rh-like (LW) antibody which reacts more strongly with D-positive than D-negative red cells. The Rh-like (LW) antigen is absent from Rhnull (–––/–––) red cells and also from the blood of several unusual persons with apparently normal Rh antigens. Some of the latter individuals have produced LW antibodies which resembled those induced in guinea pigs by immunization with human and monkey red cells.

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GIBBS, M. The Quantitative Relationship of the Rh-like (LW) and D Antigens of Human Erythrocytes. Nature 210, 642–643 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210642a0

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