Abstract
THE skin-reactive substances of grass pollen extracts used in clinical allergy have recently been shown to be proteins of average molecular weight 14,0001. Only two instances of a precipitating anti-serum to grass pollen extracts are known2,3.
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AUGUSTIN, R. Precipitins to Grass Pollen Proteins. Nature 172, 307 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172307a0
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