Maciej Simm wrote: > > Many thanks to the many of you who took time to answer my question. > The summary: MHC is not HLA, and class2 is HLA-DR. My two cents: Considering MHC and HLA to be perfect synonyms simply reflects a "human-centric" view of immunology (which is appropriate for medics!). For what it's worth, the MHCs for pigs (swine), horses (equine), sheep (ovine) and cattle (bovine) are also known as SLA, ELA, OLA and BoLA, respectively. oink ...
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