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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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The antiserum used for the precipitin reaction was obtained by treating a rabbit with human blood serum.
Now all these specific reactions, the precipitin reaction as well as the anaphylactic reaction, can be called forth by proteins.
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.
All these functions were attributed to different substances in the serum, and named accordingly as antitoxin, precipitin and agglutinin.
Their specificity could be related to particular defined groups on the antigen and evaluated quantitatively with precipitin reactions and hapten inhibition of precipitation.

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