This medication may be prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information. tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to clopidogrel, prasugrel (Effient), ticlopidine (Ticlid), any other medications, or any ingredient in clopidogrel tablets.
Polio. Not long after Henriettaâs death, planning began for a HeLa factoryâa massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. It was built for one reason: to stop polio.
A: Buccal swabs are used to collect cheek cells from inside your mouth. These cheek cells provide DNA for HLA testing, which is used to determine a match between a donor and a patient. Buccal swabs provide the least invasive way of collecting DNA samples for HLA testing.: This method of collecting DNA is similar to what is seen on TV. However, the NMDP uses your DNA ONLY for HLA testing. HLA testing is used to determine an individualâs tissue type so it can be listed on the NMDP Registry where it will be matched against the tissue types of patients who need marrow donors.