Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Pathology, Medical Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Abstract
1. The serum ferments are practically unaltered by a primary injection of foreign protein.
2. During the course of sensitization the injection of the antigen is followed by the mobilization of a non-specific protease which increases in rapidity and intensity as the maximum period of sensitization is reached.
3. Acute shock is accompanied by:
(a) The instantaneous mobilization of a large amount of non-specific protease; (b) a decrease in antiferment; (c) an increase in non-coagulable nitrogen of the serum; (d) an increase in amino-acids; (e) a primary decrease in serum proteoses.
4. Later there is a progressive increase in the non-coagulable nitrogen, in proteoses, and in serum lipase.
5. The acute intoxication is brought about by the cleavage of serum proteins (and proteoses) through the peptone stage by a non-specific protease.
6. The specific elements lie in the rapid, mobilization of this ferment and the colloidal serum changes which bring about the change in antiferment titer.
Publisher
Rockefeller University Press
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
Cited by
26 articles.
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