HLA Definition

āchĕl-ā
noun
Any of certain inherited antigens present on the surface of nucleated tissue cells in humans, used in determining histocompatibility, susceptibility to certain diseases, etc.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Human leukocyte antigen.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of HLA

  • h(uman) l(eukocyte) a(ntigen)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

HLA Sentence Examples

  • The specificity of the antibodies will be determined by panel studies with HLA typed donor lymphocytes and HNA typed donor granulocytes.

  • In most cases, 1 or more female donors had positive HLA and/or granulocyte antibodies.

  • We thus found a high frequency of allele-specific and locus-specific down-regulation of HLA expression in uveal melanoma cell lines.

  • Further developments in DNA technology now allow technicians to determine a pre- implantation embryo ' s histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA ).

  • Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus is a mild overlap form associated with HLA DR3 and anti-Ro antibodies.

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