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Identification of haptoglobin in chicken serum and specificity of the chicken haptoglobin-hemoglobin complex
S Musquera1, C Lombart, M F Jayle
1Laboratoire Associé no 87 du CNRS, UER Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Paris, France.
Abstract:
1. The presence of haptoglobin in chicken serum has been demonstrated by three different techniques: gel filtration, cellulose acetate electrophoresis and fluorescence quenching. 2. Chicken haptoglobin shows a narrow species specificity; it binds only avian and reptilian but not mammalian hemoglobins. 3. Haptoglobin seems to have been subjected to profound changes during the course of evolution.