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Science 28 November 1969:
Vol. 166. no. 3909, pp. 1160 - 1161
DOI: 10.1126/science.166.3909.1160
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Oxytocin: Effects of Degradation on Radioimmunologic and Biologic Activity

P. Kumaresan 1, A. Kagan 1, and S. M. Glick 1

1 Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York 11235

Incubation with thioglycollate destroyed biologic activity of oxytocin, but left immunologic activity intact. Incubation with plasma of pregnant women at term or with placental extract destroyed biologic and immunologic activities. Dissociation of biologic from immunologic sites is suggested.

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