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IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS on cellulose acetate paper has proved a useful tool for the detection of serum protein sub-fractions1–3. When this method was applied to the examination of human serum haptoglobins, hæmoglobin binding to all other globulins was constantly found to occur (Fig. 1). The precipitin arcs stained much loss strongly than those of the specifically hæmoglobin-binding haptoglobins, however. This finding seemed somewhat surprising and has not been reported for agar immunoelectrophoresis4,5.
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LAURENT, B. Non-specific Hæmoglobin Binding of Human Serum Globulins in Immunoelectrophoresis. Nature 202, 1121–1122 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021121a0
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