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An association between schistosomes and contrapsin, a mouse serine protease inhibitor (serpin)
1Department of Medical Helminthology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Winches Farm Field Station, St Albans.
Parasitology
|February 1, 1988
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.