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A SENSITIVE electrophoretic method for measuring lymphocyte sensitivity has been developed and applied to the study of human disease2,3 (including cancer4) and to the mode of action of antilymphocytic serum5. In principle, the method depends on the observation that a sensitized lymphocyte interacts with its specific antigen (but not with others) to liberate into the ambient medium some material which has the property of causing electrophoretic slowing of normal macrophages. The latter are used merely as an indicator system of lymphocyte–antigen interaction.
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CASPARY, E. Lymphocyte–Antigen Interaction in Electrophoretic Mobility Test for Cellular Sensitization. Nature New Biology 231, 24 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio231024a0
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