The significance of multiple antibody components in serum of immunized rabbits.

  • 1 October 1960
    • journal article
    • Vol. 3 (4), 336-51
Abstract
The electrophoretic patterns of six sera from rabbits immunized by two or more courses of intravenous injections of killed pneumococci type III showed multiple peaks in the γ-globulin region. Such sera contained large amounts of antibody (up to 85 per cent of the total γ globulin) against the capsular polysaccharide. One serum contained a cryoglobulin, which contained almost as great a proportion of specific antibody as did the remaining γ globulin.