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Serious DON'T EAT LHL's FUKUSHIMA NUKE FOOD, yr blood type CHANGED!
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Yr future medical cost will be super huge figure to bankrupt your family. No insurance Medisave will be sufficient to cover. You got emergency, nobody else's blood may be able to save your live! https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0223183819.htm Science Newsfrom research organizations Blood mystery solved: Two new blood types identified Date: February 23, 2012 Source: University of Vermont Summary: You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you're Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these. Yet this knowledge could be "a matter of life and death." While blood transfusion problems due to Langereis and Junior blood types are rare worldwide, several ethnic populations are at risk. Share: FULL STORY Blood samples. You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you're Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these. Credit: © weim / Fotolia You probably know your blood type: A, B, AB or O. You may even know if you're Rhesus positive or negative. But how about the Langereis blood type? Or the Junior blood type? Positive or negative? Most people have never even heard of these. Yet this knowledge could be "a matter of life and death," says University of Vermont biologist Bryan Ballif. While blood transfusion problems due to Langereis and Junior blood types are rare worldwide, several ethnic populations are at risk, Ballif notes. "More than 50,000 Japanese are thought to be Junior negative and may encounter blood transfusion problems or mother-fetus incompatibility," he writes. But the molecular basis of these two blood types has remained a mystery -- until now. In the February issue of Nature Genetics, Ballif and his colleagues report on their discovery of two proteins on red blood cells responsible for these lesser-known blood types. Ballif identified the two molecules as specialized transport proteins named ABCB6 and ABCG2. "Only 30 proteins have previously been identified as responsible for a basic blood type," Ballif notes, "but the count now reaches 32." The last new blood group proteins to be discovered were nearly a decade ago, Ballif says, "so it's pretty remarkable to have two identified this year." Both of the newly identified proteins are also associated with anticancer drug resistance, so the findings may also have implications for improved treatment of breast and other cancers. As part of the international effort, Ballif, assistant professor in the biology department, used a mass spectrometer at UVM funded by the Vermont Genetics Network. With this machine, he analyzed proteins purified by his longtime collaborator, Lionel Arnaud at the French National Institute for Blood Transfusion in Paris, France. Ballif and Arnaud, in turn, relied on antibodies to Langereis and Junior blood antigens developed by Yoshihiko Tani at the Japanese Red Cross Osaka Blood Center and Toru Miyasaki at the Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido Blood Center. After the protein identification in Vermont, the work returned to France. There Arnaud and his team conducted cellular and genetic tests confirming that these proteins were responsible for the Langereis and Junior blood types. "He was able to test the gene sequence," Ballif says, "and, sure enough, we found mutations in this particular gene for all the people in our sample who have these problems." Transfusion troubles Beyond the ABO blood type and the Rhesus (Rh) blood type, the International Blood Transfusion Society recognizes twenty-eight additional blood types with names like Duffy, Kidd, Diego and Lutheran. But Langereis and Junior have not been on this list. Although the antigens for the Junior and Langereis (or Lan) blood types were identified decades ago in pregnant women having difficulties carrying babies with incompatible blood types, the genetic basis of these antigens has been unknown until now. Therefore, "very few people learn if they are Langereis or Junior positive or negative," Ballif says. "Transfusion support of individuals with an anti-Lan antibody is highly challenging," the research team wrote in Nature Genetics, "partly because of the scarcity of compatible blood donors but mainly because of the lack of reliable reagents for blood screening." And Junior-negative blood donors are extremely rare too. That may soon change. With the findings from this new research, health care professionals will now be able to more rapidly and confidently screen for these novel blood group proteins, Ballif wrote in a recent news article. "This will leave them better prepared to have blood ready when blood transfusions or other tissue donations are required," he notes. "Now that we know these proteins, it will become a routine test," he says. A better match This science may be especially important to organ transplant patients. "As we get better and better at transplants, we do everything we can to make a good match," Ballif says. But sometimes a tissue or organ transplant, that looked like a good match, doesn't work -- and the donated tissue is rejected, which can lead to many problems or death. "We don't always know why there is rejection," Ballif says, "but it may have to do with these proteins." The rejection of donated tissue or blood is caused by the way the immune system distinguishes self from not-self. "If our own blood cells don't have these proteins, they're not familiar to our immune system," Ballif says, so the new blood doesn't "look like self" to the complex cellular defenses of the immune system. "They'll develop antibodies against it," Ballif says, and try to kill off the perceived invaders. In short, the body starts to attack itself. "Then you may be out of luck," says Ballif, who notes that in addition to certain Japanese populations, European Gypsies are also at higher risk for not carrying the Langereis and Junior blood type proteins. "There are people in the United States who have these challenges too," he says, "but it's more rare." Other proteins Ballif and his international colleagues are not done with their search. "We're following up on more unknown blood types," he says. "There are probably on the order of 10 to 15 more of these unknown blood type systems -- where we know there is a problem but we don't know what the protein is that is causing the problem." Although these other blood systems are very rare, "if you're that one individual, and you need a transfusion," Ballif says, "there's nothing more important for you to know." Story Source: Materials provided by University of Vermont. Original written by Joshua E. Brown. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference: http://m.sohu.com/n/475218377/?wscrid=1137_6 俄媒:日本出现2种新血型 或与福岛核事故有关 环球网 12-07 19:29 大 【环球网报道 记者 余鹏飞】据俄罗斯卫星网12月7日报道,日本科学家在本国发现两种新血型,新血型的出现可能与 福岛核事故有 关。 【环球网报道 记者 余鹏飞】据俄罗斯卫星网12月7日报道,日本科学家在本国发现两种新血型,新血型的出现可能与 福岛核事故有 关。 【环球网报道记者余鹏飞】据俄罗斯卫星网12月7日报道,日本科学家在本国发现两种新血型,新 血型的出现可 能与福岛核事故有关。 报道称,专家目前找不到更加准确的原因。科学家认为,这种影响可能很快遍及全球。研究人员推测 ,未来人类可 能会出现十余种新血型。 另据俄罗斯“z-news”新闻网站7日报道,日本科学家发现的两种新血型与已知的I,II,III和IV完全不同。 新的血液类型被称为Langereis血型和Junior血型,以区别于传统的分类。据科学家 们说,这种现 象与福岛核事故造成的放射性物质泄漏有关。 报道引述医生的话称,预计在不久的将来会看到更多的变化。科学家预测未来至少会有15个新的血 型出现 Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com. |
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