The Influence of Desiccation Upon Natural Hemolysins and Hemagglutinins in Human Sera

[摘要] As part of a series of studies upon natural hemolysins and hemagglutinins in human sera (1), the influence of desiccation upon these substances has been investigated and the results have proven of particular interest in reference to the method of Sanford (2) of using normal human sera dried on cover glasses for the purpose of conducting microscopical agglutination tests in the classification or typing of blood; these studies have proven especially interesting and of practical importance since Sands and West (3) have found in these laboratories, that drying rabbit antihuman serum in paper and dishes results in the destruction or inactivation of a portion of the immune hemagglutinins and suggesting that the practice of using dried human sera for agglutination tests after the methods of Sanford (2) and Hartman (4), may be open to error due to deterioration of the normal isoagglutinins.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）