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DURING the past few years, two new methods have been described for use in investigating in vitro production of antibodies against sheep erythrocytes by isolated cells. In the first method1,2 a suspension of spleen cells is mixed with sheep erythrocytes, embedded in agar or carboxy-methylcellulose and incubated with guinea-pig complement. Under these conditions, plaque formation occurs as a consequence of the production of haemolysins by certain spleen cells. With the second method3,4 a suspension of spleen cells is incubated with sheep red blood cells, but the cells are not embedded in a semi-solid medium. In this environment clusters of agglutinated sheep erythrocytes are formed around a number of spleen cells. In the present investigation the results obtained by these two methods are compared and the observed differences are discussed.
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ZAALBERG, O., MEUL, V. & TWISK, J. Antibody Production by Single Spleen Cells : a Comparative Study of the Cluster and Agar-plaque Formation. Nature 210, 544–545 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210544a0
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