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Specific Inhibition of Anti-Rh Serum by ‘Unnatural’ Sugars

Nature volume 184, pages 989–990 (1959)Cite this article

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LANDSTEINER'S technique of specific serological inhibition has recently given valuable information about the structure of the A, B, H mucopoly-saccharides.1,2 It was reported by Hackel, Smolker and Fenske3 that anti-Rh sera were specifically inhibited by a number of ribonucleic acid derivatives, suggesting that the Rh antigens are at least partly nucleotide in nature.

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  1. Department of Immunochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, 18, Mass.

    WILLIAM C. BOYD, MARJORIE H. McMASTER & EUGENIA WASZCZENKO-ZACHARCZENKO

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BOYD, W., McMASTER, M. & WASZCZENKO-ZACHARCZENKO, E. Specific Inhibition of Anti-Rh Serum by ‘Unnatural’ Sugars. Nature 184, 989–990 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184989a0

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