The University of Chicago Header Logo

ABO Blood-Group System

"ABO Blood-Group System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
The major human blood type system which depends on the presence or absence of two antigens A and B. Type O occurs when neither A nor B is present and AB when both are present. A and B are genetic factors that determine the presence of enzymes for the synthesis of certain glycoproteins mainly in the red cell membrane.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "ABO Blood-Group System" by people in this website by year, and whether "ABO Blood-Group System" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2008
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.