<span style="font-size: 20.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black">Immunopotentiating activity of abrin, a lectin from <i><span style="font-size:21.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black">Abrus precatorius </span></i><span style="font-size:20.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Linn </span></span>

Abstract

910-913<span style="font-size: 15.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";="" color:black"="">A non-toxic dose of abrin , (1.25µg/kg body wt) consecutively for five days in normal mice stimulated specific humoral responses. A noticeable increase was observed in total leucocyte count, lymphocytosis, weights of spleen and thymus, circulating antibody titre, anti body forming cells, bone marrow cellularity and oc-esterase positive bone marrow cells. The results <span style="font-size:15.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.5pt;line-height:115%; font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" ar-sa"="">suggest that abrin can potentiate the humoral immune response of the host.</span