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Surface Alteration and the Agglutinability of Red Cells

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IN the course of a study of the effects of formalin on red cells it was noted that formalin was capable of completely inhibiting the agglutinability of red cells by antisera without destroying the antigens of the cells.

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MOSKOWITZ, M., CARB, S. Surface Alteration and the Agglutinability of Red Cells. Nature 180, 1049–1050 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801049a0

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