A Study on Agglutination Activity of Phytagglutinin, Euonymus europaeus B. to Rabbit Red Blood Cells

, Kwang-Jong Jang

Original Article

Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1990;14(1):24-28.

Department of Legal Medicine, Korea University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

The extracts of Euonymus europaeus B native to America were prepared in the usual manner, thereafter the agglutination test with various animal blood and the agglutination inhibition test on rabbit red blood cells (RBC) with human sera, whole blood, and washed RBC were carried out. As a result, author demonstrated that E . europaeus reacted on rabbit RBC as Pan ? phytagglutinin. Agglutinating activity of E. europaeus on rabbit RBC was inhibited by some human sera, while it was failed to inhibit by the others. The distribution of the former was 13% and the latter was 87% . There was no relation to the distribution of E. europaeus Inhibitor on rabbit RBC among ABO blood groups. Agglutinating activity of E. europaeus on rabbit RBC was also inhibited by certain human RBC, while it was failed to inhibit by others. But the distribution of these was closely related to human B and AB blood group RBC.