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“INCOMPLETE” Rh antibodies may be detected by suspending Rh-positive cells in a solution containing antibody and a high concentration of serum albumin1. Various explanations have been proposed to account for this reaction including one by McCulloch2 that the presence of an α-globulin impurity in the serum albumin is necessary for agglutination to occur; we were unable to reproduce the results which led him to this conclusion.
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JONES, J., KEKWICK, R. & GOLDSMITH, K. Influence of Polymers on the Efficacy of Serum Albumin as a Potentiator of “Incomplete” Rh Agglutinins. Nature 224, 510–511 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224510a0
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