Biology ETDs

Publication Date

3-14-1949

Abstract

Eighty-five percent of human beings have an agglutinogen similar to that in rhesus monkeys, now called the Rh factor. This natural antibody is comparable to those which make human blood divisible into the Landsteiner groups A, B, AB, and O. This Rh factor is so called because it was first discovered in the blood of rhesus monkeys. Its importance is that it provides an explanations for previously baffling reactions to blood transfusions and the loss of babies by apparently healthy women during or shortly after pregnancy.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Biology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

UNM Biology Department

First Committee Member (Chair)

Martin William Fleck

Second Committee Member

Edward Franklin Castetter

Third Committee Member

Richard B. Johnson

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