Warmer Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Warmer and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| Cold antibodies Most are IgM and not clinically significant May interfere with detection of clinically significant antibodies if they react at AHG phase. Screen cells and panel cells will have positive reactions in IS phase and strength will diminish or antibody will not be detected at AHG phase. Auto control will be positive if the cold antibody is an autoantibody. Binding of antibody to antigen occurs at room or colder temperatures and may start to disassociate from the red cell membrane at warmer temperatures. Reactions will appear weaker or be negative at warmer temperatures. (Example: 4+ at IS phase and W (weak)+ at AHG phase.) PrewarmingIf a non specific cold antibody or cold agglutinin is suspected, warm the sample and testing reagents, including saline, to 37° C. Only do reaction readings at AHG; bypassing the optimum reaction temperature prevents activation and binding of the cold antibody . | View Page |
| Cold Autoantibody Example Reactions are occurring strongly in IS phase but are weaker in AHG phase which could be due to some disassociation of the cold antibody occurring at the warmer testing phase.Prewarming of all reagents and sample will prevent binding of cold antibody. If the W+ reactions at AHG are due to residual cold antibody, the reactions should be negative with a prewarmed panel. No IS phase reading is performed. Prewarmed Panel | View Page |