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What is a precipitin?

What is a precipitin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any antibody that reacts with an antigen to form a precipitate.
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A test serum is positive if it forms a specific precipitin line with the antigen and forms a complete line of identity with the control serum.
Now all these specific reactions, the precipitin reaction as well as the anaphylactic reaction, can be called forth by proteins.
Their specificity could be related to particular defined groups on the antigen and evaluated quantitatively with precipitin reactions and hapten inhibition of precipitation.
Some precipitin tests and preliminary remarks on the systematic relationships of four South American families of frogs.
The precipitin reaction, however, has never been applied to actual problems in avian taxonomy prior to the present study.
In antibody test against H. capsulatum, the positive immunodiffusion reactions involve one or more specific precipitin bands.

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