An association between schistosomes and contrapsin, a mouse serine protease inhibitor (serpin)
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Parasitology
- Vol. 96 (1) , 99-109
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000081683
Abstract
SUMMARY: An antigen in homogenates of adultSchistosoma mansoniworms grown in mice, and immunoprecipitated by polyspecific rabbit antiserum, has been identified as contrapsin, a mouse serine protease inhibitor (serpin). In the serum of some mice infected withS. mansonicontrapsin was found with altered immunoelectrophoretic characteristics when compared with contrapsin from uninfected mice.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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