FUN FACTS
The world’s fourth human heart transplantation on 1/5/68 was successful and inaugurated the long-standing thoracic organ transplant program at that institution.
What is Stanford?
Discovery of ABO blood groups.
Who is Landsteiner?
American Society For Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
What is ASHI?
The combination of a base, a sugar, and a phosphate group.
What is a nucleotide?
Whole blood samples collected in the anticoagulant, acid-citrate-dextrose are used to isolate lymphocytes for serologic HLA typing.
What is ACD-A tubes or yellow top tubes?
ASHI President 2009-2010
Who is Marcelo?
SBC Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory Director
Who is Marcelo Fernandez Vina?
These cells play important roles in fighting infection.
What are white blood cells or lymphocytes?
These sequences read the same forwards (coding strand) as backwards (noncoding strand).
What are palindromes?
We have a density of ~1.077 g/ml.
What are lymphocytes?
Total number of solid organ transplants were performed in 2018 at SBC.
What is 413?
Transplantation of chimpanzee heart to human recipient. The heart was too small to support the circulation and failed after 2 hours.
Who is Hardy?
deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
It is used to sequence entire human genomes.
What is Next Generation Sequencing?
You can use this to remove granulocytes, platelets, and dead cells.
What is thrombin?
Total number of adult bone marrow transplants were performed in 2018 at SBC.
What is 186?
Description of microcytoxicity test, critical for further development and practical use of HLA typing.
Who is Paul Terasaki?
If a patient and a donor are HLA mismatched, the donor’s stem cells may be destroyed by the patient's immune system.
What is graft rejection?
This method uses DNA polymerase, a DNA template, nucleotides and primers.
What is PCR?
Do this to remove platelets in the supernatant.
What is centrifugation slow/short?
There are 4 of these at Hillview.
What are Admins?
I was the ASHI President from 2000-2001.
Who is Dolly Tyan?
We differentiate to become blood cells.
What is hematopoietic cells?
We are highly polymorphic (many forms).
What are HLA genes?
Dithiothreitol or Cleland’s reagent
What is DTT?