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A new technique utilizing a platelet aggregometer was devised for evaluating agglutination of tissue culture cells by wheat germ lipase agglutinin (WGA). The hypothesis that HeLa cells grown in the presence of glucocorticoids accumulate sialopeptides at the cell surface was examined by subjecting such cells to agglutination by WGA. The steroid-treated cells were found to bind more agglutinin at the cell surface and were agglutinated more strongly than the controls.
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