Widespread occurrence in mammals of antibodies reactive to intracytoplasmic A particles of the mouse mammary tumor virus
Zotter, S.
Archiv für Geschwulstforschung 53(4): 315-319
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-911X PMID: 6312921 Document Number: 204908
Serum antibodies reactive to clusters of intracytoplasmic A particles in mouse mammary tumors and leukemia cells by means of an indirect immunofluorescence assay were detected in 11 mammalian species (ranging in frequency from 5.1 to 29.3%). These antibodies could not be found in sera from chicken, ducks and geese. Their presence in so many mammalian species, not only in mammary tumor virus-infected mice, sheds new light on similar antibodies in man detected 10 years ago.