Abstract
The author investigated the species specificity of serum albumin and serum of man, rabbit goat and beef, using turbidometric titration and paperelectrophoresis. The results were as follows.
1. The turbidometric titration of serum albumin had many peaks and allow to detect very subtle differences (as species specific) among different .species (Fig. 4).
2. In order to obtain accurate turbidometric diagram, special care must be payed for the experimental conditions of serum separation, especially on the temperature influence upon the turbidometric diagram of serum albumin as illustrated in Scheme 1 and Fig. 5.
3. Paper electrophoretic patterns of serum showed differences among man, rabbit and goat.
The author wishes to thank Prof. K. Sasagawa and Assist. Prof. Y. Tamura, (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University) for their advice to my investigation. And also, the author wishes to thank Prof. T. Yamamoto Dr. M. Yamamoto (Department of Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University), Prof. G. Wakizaka, Dr. K. Torizuka (Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University), Dr. H. Kiho, Dr. K. Kawai (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University) and Dr. Y. Momotani (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University) for their excellent discussion.
