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. 1925 Jul 31;42(2):123–142. doi: 10.1084/jem.42.2.123

ON THE ANTIGENS OF RED BLOOD CORPUSCLES

II. FLOCCULATION REACTIONS WITH ALCOHOLIC EXTRACTS OF ERYTHROCYTES.

K Landsteiner 1, James van der Scheer 1
PMCID: PMC2131003  PMID: 19869040

Abstract

1. Flocculation reactions of anti-erythrocyte sera on emulsions of alcoholic extract of blood are described. 2. The reactions are markedly species-specific. 3. Besides the homologous reactions certain others—"heterogenetic"" ones—have been observed, and in this way the existence of new examples of heterogenetic antibodies has been demonstrated. 4. Group-specific substances can be extracted from human erythrocytes with alcohol and demonstrated by flocculation with group-specific immune sera. 5. A conception of the structure of cellular antigens based upon the known facts, is presented.

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