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From the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Abstract
A number of mollusks have in their expressed body fluids substances that react with human erythrocytes. The snail Otala lactea contains a powerful and specific anti-A agglutinin that precipitates promptly and specifically with blood group A substance prepared from hog gastric mucin.
Footnotes
1 The research reported in this article was supported by Research Grants H-1076, RG-4704 and RG-6939 from the National Institutes of Health, and Research Grant NSF-G-15082 from the National Science Foundation. It was facilitated by National Institutes of Health Career Award 5-K6-GM-14, 184.
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