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Group System
•Lu10
◦ designation no longer used.
◦ reserved for Singleton, an antigen thought to be the allele of Lu5
•Lu5
◦ antibody reacted strongly with Lu:-5 RBCs.
◦ However, five other examples of Lu:5 cells were later tested and
found to be negative with the Singleton serum.
Anti-Lua
•IgM naturally occuring saline agglutinins
•May be IgA,IgM or IgG
•reactive at room temperature than at 37oC.(few react at 37oC
IAT
by__________)
•Capable of binding compliment .
Most reagents are (Lu a-)
•Undetected in routine testing because_______________ .
•encountered as an incompatible crossmatch or during an
antibody workup for another specificity.
Mixed field reactivity
•Lutheran Ab by their characteristic loose, ___________ in a
test tube.
Anti-Lua
•not profoundly altered with the common blood bank enzymes ficin and
papain,
•can be destroyed with trypsin, chymotrypsin, pronase, ____,
AET and ____.
DDT