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    Monkey anti-placental serum as an abortifacient,

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    Pregnant Rhesus monkeys can be aborted by injection of heterologous (autologous) placental globulin without any notable harm to the mother. Presumably, anti-placental globulin reacts with trophoblastic tissue in the presence of complement, which then destroys tissues, and abortion follows. Within this experimental model, neither MPL nor MCG appear as responsible antigenic elements; but rather, a placental specific antigen(s) as yet unidentified.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34204/1/0000493.pd
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