A precipitin-inhibition test on denatured bloodstains for the determination of human origin.

The Effectiveness of Selecting Small Bloodstains (<3mm) in the Determination of the Area of Origin

A wandering spleen detected by 99mTc-denatured RBC scan

A 23 day old infant patient underwent 99mTc-denatured RBC scanning for locating possible ectopic spleen in our department.  The scan showed no tracer activity in normal splenic bed in the left upper quadrant and an ectopic spleen was shown on the right side of abdomen inferior to the liver. 99mTc-denatured RBC scan is an easy and available method for splenic localization i...

Serological Reactions of Protein Films and Denatured Proteins

Films of several proteins, hen ovalbumin, horse and human serum albumins, and globulins were found to combine specifically with antibodies, showing that the reactions can take place independently of the structure which secures the compact shape of the protein molecule. Serum globulin films differed from ovalbumin in that they lost their reactivity when kept on the water surface. Species specifi...

Agar-gel precipitin-inhibition technique for plague antibody determinations.

An application of the agar-gel precipitin-inhibition technique we described previously can be used to detect plague antibodies in human and animal sera after a series of plague vaccine inoculations or after exposure to Pasteurella pestis. Determination of the minimal reacting concentrations of the plague antigen and antibody reagents, methods for combining reagents, and length of incubation per...

Species specificity in the inhibition of antiglobulin sera; a technique for the identification of human and animal bloods.

In forensic medical practice it is sometimes necessary to determine whether a stain is blood and whether it is of human or animal origin. The recognition of blood is comparatively easy, since a number of sensitive biochemical tests for blood are available (Glaister, 1945). To establish whether the stain is human blood is much less easy. For this purpose the precipitin technique is in general us...