In order to provide students with an appreciation for how lectin reagents have historically
been obtained, the medical laboratory science (MLS) immunohematology instructor …

Polyagglutination is a condition in which red cells are agglutinated by ABO-compatible adult
human sera, but not by cord blood sera and may be acquired or inherited. Lectins are …

Lectin Methods and Protocols brings together a comprehensive collection of optimized
methods for using lectins in biomedical research. The techniques-fine-tuned by the …

Materials and methods. α-1-Acid glycoprotein, horseradish peroxidase-labeled WGA, and
Con A, bovine serum albumin, N-acetylglucosamine, α-D-methyl mannopyranoside, WGA …

An automated, qualitative and semi-quantitative micro-assay for the detection of plant lectins
also known as phyto-agglutinins (glycoproteins; have exciting applications in medicines) is …

A method is described for the direct detection of lectins, agglutinating erythrocytes, on
nitrocellulose membranes after Western blotting, thus avoiding protein extraction from …

At a conference in 1973, WC Boyd was asked how he would define a lectin. 8 He replied
that although he had invented the word he had no right to dictate what it should mean. He …

Extracts from Viscum album leaves, with mistletoe lectin I (ML I) as the main therapeutic
agent, are commonly used as an immunomodulating adjuvat in tumour therapy. Because of …

Frontal affinity chromatography (FAC) is a quantitative technique of affinity chromatography
originally developed by Kasai and Ishii [1](for a detailed review, see Ref.[2]). Although it was …

I was a student of Fred Smith at the University of Minnesota during 1952–1959. Smith was
an Englishman who came to the USA to work on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic …