Accession Number:

ADA076774

Title:

LD Typing for Bone Marrow Transplantation.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Sep 76-Sep 78,

Corporate Author:

GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC LOMBARDI CANCER CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Romano,Paula J.

Report Date:

1979-09-05

Pagination or Media Count:

17.0

Abstract:

The primary goal of this contract was to develop a support facility for HLA-D typing. The major accomplishments were 1 Establishment of a facility for the performance of large scale sterile tissue culture 2 Development of new methods of collecting and cryopreserving large amounts of lymphoid cells to use as reagents for HLA-D typing 3 Development of techniques for irradiating cryopreserved lymphoid cells 4 Identification of 47 new homozygous typing cells HTC 5 HLA-D typing of panel of 100 random individuals 6 Participation in the Seventh International Histocompatibility Typing Workshop Oxford, England, 1977 and 7 Organization of the First International Histocompatibility Typing Conference. Naval Medical Research Institutes, Bethesda, MD, 1977. Author

Descriptors:

• *LYMPHOCYTES
• *TRANSPLANTATION
• *BONE MARROW
• *CRYOBIOLOGY
• TISSUES(BIOLOGY)
• COMPATIBILITY
• IDENTIFICATION
• TOXIC AGENTS
• IRRADIATION
• SEROLOGY
• ANEMIAS
• TISSUE CULTURE

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE