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Humoral Antibodies to Methylcholanthrene Sarcomata Detected by a Fluorescent Technique

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SPECIFIC humoral antibodies have been regularly detected in mice leukaemias1–5. Attempts to find similar antibodies in other neoplastic diseases gave negative results6. Only in some experiments with tumours induced by carcinogenic substances were antibodies revealed7.

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LEJNEVA, O., ZILBER, L. & IEVLEVA, E. Humoral Antibodies to Methylcholanthrene Sarcomata Detected by a Fluorescent Technique. Nature 206, 1163–1164 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2061163a0

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