Monday, June 24, 2013

THE FIRST WORD

alpha-gal
Blood tests revealed they had pre-existing antibodies to a certain sugar commonly known as alpha-gal, which is present in the drug and found naturally in mammalian meat.
Alpha-gal is short for Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose and is also involved in some kinds of transplant-rejection problems, especially transplants of organs and tissues from pigs.

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