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An association between schistosomes and contrapsin, a mouse serine protease inhibitor (serpin)
Jay Modha, Vaishu Parikh, Jack Gauldie, Michael J. Doenhoff
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Abstract
An antigen in homogenates of adult Schistosoma mansoni worms 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 with S. mansoni contrapsin was found with altered immunoelectrophoretic characteristics when compared with contrapsin from uninfected mice.