The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 86, 77-81,
Copyright, 1947, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
ANTIPROTEINS IN HORSE SERA
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II. ANTIBODIES TO PNEUMOCOCCUS NUCLEOPROTEIN AND THEIR REACTION WITH ANTIGEN
Michael Heidelberger Ph.D.1
1 From the Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the Presbyterian Hospital, New York
The antiprotein in an antipneumococcus horse serum resulting from intravenous injections of infected pleural exudate showed a precipitin type of reaction with pneumococcus nucleoprotein rather than the antitoxin type of response.
Submitted on April 15, 1947