Precipitin

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Use

immune complex, immunoprecipitation

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• When a specific serum precipitin is applied to diluted milk the reaction occurs at a relatively uniform level of dilution.
• , Test Definition: Aspergillosis precipitin is a laboratory test to detect antibodies in the blood resulting from exposure to the fungus aspergillus.
• When a line does not show identity with known antibodies against tissue extracts, the precipitin is called UIL (unidentified line), which is associated with "rheumatic disease," but their specificities are unknown.
• Liquid precipitin is used for viruses whose particles are too long (500 nm and above) to diffuse in agar.
• Evi 2000 dence is presented that anti-egg albumin is not homogeneous, and that even after prolonged immunization the antiserum contains much low-grade antibody, incapable of forming precipitates unless more reactive precipitin is present.

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