Gel-Diffusion techniques
Gel-Diffusion techniques
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凝胶扩散技术
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-87042-2_3
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发表时间:
1970
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影响因子:
20.3
通讯作者:
Ö. Ouchterlony
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作者:
Ö. Ouchterlony
The topic of my lecture here today is gel-diffusion techniques for immunological analysis. In order to make my survey more stimulating for an audience with a medical background I was very tempted to concentrate on the application of these methods to problems not only in immunology but also in e.g. medicine, pathology, physiology or biochemistry. However, I will abstain from doing so with a few exceptions and confine myself to a presentation of some methods and basic questions concerning qualitative and quantitative analyses. I assume that such an approach to the topic in question is more in accordance with the intentions of the organizers of this colloquium. The immunological gel-diffusion techniques have a history of about sixty years. Some five years after RUDOLF KRAUS in Vienna described the reaction of immunoprecipitation BECHHOLD in Germany in 1905 reported on experiments concerning immunoprecipitates established in a gel medium. These precipitates were obtained by letting an antigenic solution goat serum diffuse into a gel containing an anti-goat serum. The formation of multiple precipitation bands under these conditions was considered as so called Liesegang effects a phenomenon in physics, which BEcHHoLD at that time was investigating. Until the middle of the forties few investigators utilized this diffusion-in-gel principle for immunological analysis. In 1946-1948 some reports on standardized techniques of so-called immunodiffusion (ID) were published by e.g. OUDIN in France, OUCHTERLONY in Sweden and ELEK in England. Since then many new techniques and modifications have been reported and the literature that we have been able to screen concerning methods comprises about three hundred publications. One of the most useful technical developments is the method of