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. 1972 Jun;11(2):225–234.

The influence of different techniques in characterizing human antibodies to cow's milk proteins

T D McCaffery, S C Kraft, R M Rothberg
PMCID: PMC1553623  PMID: 4625158

Abstract

Sera from 760 subjects with and without inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were studied selectively using both primary and secondary antibody assay techniques and different cow's milk antigens. Techniques which demonstrate antibody–antigen binding revealed that the incidence, amount and immunoglobulin class of detectable antibody to bovine serum albumin (BSA) were not significantly different among IBD and control subjects. Only 13 of the 138 sera with the most anti-BSA by primary binding techniques had the capacity to precipitate spontaneously either BSA or antigens in raw (RSM) and pasteurized (PSM) skimmed milk. In passive haemagglutination studies, 41% of these 138 sera had the capacity to agglutinate BSA-coated erythrocytes, while the respective figures for RSM and PSM were 56% and 77%. Only in studies employing the passive haemagglutination of RSM-coated erythrocytes were high titres found more frequently in sera from patients with IBD than in sera from control subjects. Taken as a whole, this study fails to provide evidence for the pathogenetic significance of milk antibodies in IBD.

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