Completely Adjustable Multipurpose Agar Gel Cutter

Completely Adjustable Multipurpose Agar Gel Cutter.

Recent progress in the study of antigen-antibody reactions of biologicals in agar gel demands improvement of existing gel-cutting devices. For an ideal comparison of two or more antigenic preparations against an antiserum, it is necessary to obtain a critical distance between the ( antigen and antibody cups and to obtain a partial or complete identity of precipitinogen in adjacent cups. However...

Behavior of the Serum proteins in starch-agar-gel electrophoresis

Agar-gel immunodiffusion assay for pseudorabies virus antibody.

Soluble antigen prepared from pseudorabies virus-infected embryonic pig kidney cells was used to demonstrate the presence of pseudorabies virus antibodies in sera taken from naturally and experimentally infected swine. Antibody could be detected by agar-gel immunodiffusion as early as 14 days postexposure and was demonstrable at least 3 months after experimental infection (the longest period te...

Arbovirus identification by an agar-gel diffusion technique.

A double diffusion-in-agar test was used to investigate precipitation reactions of 75 arboviruses. Specific reactions were regularly observed with members of arbovirus groups B, California, Simbu, Turlock, Hart Park, vesicular stomatitis, and several other arboviruses as well as with a member of the Tacaribe group and a herpesvirus. The results demonstrated the feasibility of applying this tech...

Agar-gel precipitin-inhibition technique for plague antibody determinations.

An application of the agar-gel precipitin-inhibition technique we described previously can be used to detect plague antibodies in human and animal sera after a series of plague vaccine inoculations or after exposure to Pasteurella pestis. Determination of the minimal reacting concentrations of the plague antigen and antibody reagents, methods for combining reagents, and length of incubation per...