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Science 21 August 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3373, p. 449
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3373.449
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Isolation of a Hemolytic Component of Fire Ant Venom

GEORGE A. ADROUNY 1, VINCENT J. DERBES 2, and RODNEY C. JUNG 3

1 Department of Biochemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
2 Department of Medicine, Tulane Untiversity School of Medicine
3 Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Tulane University School of Medicine

A crystalline hemolytic principle, shown to be a constituent of fire ant venom and having the properties of an amine, was isolated from crude extracts of whole ants. The chromatographic procedure of isolation is described, and a preliminary report is given about some properties of the substance.


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