People who are blood group A has an antigen A on the surface of the red blood cell and vise versa.
What really differentiates two individuals blood group are the kind of antigen present in the persons red blood cells.
Among the four blood group, it has been observed that blood group O is termed the universal donor as it can be donated to other blood groups without any complications.
The same thing goes to APE. Ape is a unique kind of creature that has almost similar characteristics like human. They have four types of blood group exactly like human. They have A,B, AB and O blood group.
Using a monoclonal antibody, it has been observed that bonobos has exclusively blood group A, while chimpanzees has been observed to have both A and O blood group. But in the case of Orangutans, it has all the four types of antibodies.
Looking at the similarities between human and ape's blood, do you think scientifically is advisable to be transfused with ape's blood.
Can human receive blood from Ape
If I may let you know, do you know that chimpanzee and bonobos posses 98.7% of DNA make-up like human
Because of that, it makes more sense or look more interesting to know if human can actually get blood from them and why it may be possible.
Well, why going through some research work I came across this👇
Xenotransfusion is the process of transferring the blood of one species into the veins of another, and while there are a significant amount of ethical considerations to be made regarding this, it is possible to do it successfully—in very limited situations
Looking at the above write up, it seems getting transfused by an ape's blood may likely be possible, though there are still some ethical technicalities that needs to be considered.
In other hand, there are still some misunderstanding concerning the possibility of getting blood from apes, as some believes that, there may be some genetic constitution that may differs in the blood components.
Taking a look at this 👇
While it is possible to use chimpanzee blood in certain extreme situations, it will have to be O-type blood
Looking at the above write up, there is this general understanding that any other blood group aside from O blood group may be dangerous when given to human of the same type.
Well, the reason behind this are not actually stated, but there may be a little component that is more likely to trigger out reaction when such happens.
Well, this issue of getting blood from apes got me as there may be some extreme situation where human blood cannot be found and you are left with the option of using ape or to die. In such condition taking the risk of undergoing xenotransfussion should be considered.
Conclusion
Getting blood from an animal like I said earlier, is a task every human being wouldn't like to undergo if not in extreme condition.
Though there may be no reaction getting transfused by an animals blood, buy there is always this general believe that blood from other animals might have a detrimental effect at long run.
Well, since pig heart has been found to posses the same characteristics like human and have been used severely as human means of survival. I still believe that other aspects can also be helpful to human provided the necessary examination is being done.