Publications by authors named "Toru Nakade"
Although the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is closely related to Asian Old World monkey malaria parasites, there are no reports of P. vivax infections in macaques. In this study, we compared the infectivity of P.
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- The study investigates the use of a modified coil planet centrifuge method to detect and measure mixed cell populations using monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) instead of traditional polyclonal antisera, due to the latter's declining availability.
- The method was tested on packed red blood cells (RBCs) from different ABO blood types, chimeras, and patients who underwent ABO-incompatible hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (HPCT), revealing the ability to detect ABO chimerism as low as 0.1 percent.
- The findings confirm that the new method can analyze ABO chimerism and differentiate ABO variants with similar accuracy to existing methods, potentially improving early detection of relapse or rejection in HPCT patients.