Who Discovered IgE?

[Koji Naito]

Their names are Drs Kimishige and Teruko Ishizaka.

At  5:52 PM 98.4.17 +0000, Bob Scibienski wrote:
>It was originally called "reaginic" antibody.  I don't know who first described
>it as a unique entity but the critical work was performed in the late '60's
>early '70's by Kimizhigi Ishizaka and his wife, who's first name I can't
>remember.  I'm not sure of the spelling either, but it should be close.
>
>Bob S.
>
>
>s960593 at uia.ua.ac.be (Micha.OpDeBeeck) wrote:
>
>>I 'm looking for the reference of the article in which IgE was first 
>>described. I have been looking for it for some time, but I do not know 
>>the author of the article so that cmplicates things a bit :-)
>
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