The blood group activity of human gastric sulphoglycoproteins in patients with gastric cancer and normal controls.

  • 1 November 1967
    • journal article
    • Vol. 2  (6) , 669-75
Abstract
Sulphoglycoproteins, isolated from human gastric juice, were observed to possess blood group activity, compatible with hosts' blood group in eighteen normal subjects and in nine patients with atrophic gastritis. The activities were of comparable magnitude with neutral glycoproteins of gastric juice as measured with haemagglutination inhibition test. The content of neutral glycoproteins is, however, about ten times that of sulphoglycoproteins and, it was thought, this would be the reason why the latter had been previously overlooked.