A STUDY OF AN EXTREMELY PURE PREPARATION OF RICIN
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- 23 July 1910
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 12 (4) , 551-555
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.12.4.551
Abstract
1. By following the method of Osborne, Mendel and Harris, we can obtain an extremely potent toxin from the castor bean. 2. It would appear, as a result of testing this preparation at the end of two and a half years, that the agglutinating function and the toxic function are two distinct properties. 3. This result is also borne out by the behavior under the electric current; either we are dealing with two different substances or else with a single substance with two distinct toxiphore groups, one of which is stable and the other labile.Keywords
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- THE HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES PRODUCED BY RICIN AND ABRIN INTOXICATIONSThe Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1897