We have already reported 1 the results of our studies with subcutaneous injections of immune serum in spirocha~tosis icteroh~emorrhagica. In the present article are presented the results of injections made by the intravenous method, which has in the main been employed in the serotherapy of Weil's disease since May, 1916. The number of patients treated in this manner in our clinic from May, 1916...

1. When an emulsion containing virulent Treponema pallidum is added to serum from normal rabbits and from untreated immune syphilitic rabbits that have been infected with a homologous strain of T. pallidum the mixture incubated at 37 degrees C., and injected intracutaneously into normal rabbits, typical syphilitic lesions commonly develop at the sites of inoculation of the normal serum-spiroche...

The goals of the present study were to define the effects of simultaneous cisplatin/tecemotide therapy on tumor development in a human mucin 1 (MUC1) transgenic lung cancer mouse model and to examine the effects of radiotherapy (RTX) on splenocytes, serum cytokines, and immune response to tecemotide. Two hundred twenty-six human MUC1 transgenic C57BL/6 mice were used in five studies designed to...

1. After preliminary experiments in monkeys, 15 persons were actively immunized by a single injection of a dried mixture of living yellow fever virus, fixed for mice, and human immune serum, with separate injections of enough additional serum to make up the amount required for protection. 2. One person was similarly immunized by injecting immune serum and dried virus separately. 3. By titration...

Gardnerella vaginalis was ingested and killed by neutrophils in the presence of normal human serum. Heat inactivation of the serum inhibited these processes. The opsonisation of some but not all G vaginalis strains was enhanced by immune rabbit serum. Immune serum did not, however, enhance intracellular killing. Blockade of the classical pathway of complement activation had no effect on the ops...

BACKGROUND Encephalitis is parenchymal brain inflammation due to infectious or immune-mediated processes. However, in 15-60% the cause remains unknown. This study aimed to determine if the cytokine/chemokine-mediated host response can distinguish infectious from immune-mediated cases, and whether this may give a clue to aetiology in those of unknown cause. METHODS We measured 38 mediators in ...

background: the study was targeted to report the appearance of coproantigens in feces and circulating antibodies in the serum of fasciola gigantica  experimentally infected rabbits. methods: copro hyper immune serum (his) and excretory-secretory hyper immune serum (es his) antigens were used in a sandwich elisa for the detection of f. gigantica antigens in feces of 12 rabbits experimentally inf...

Sj6gren's syndrome, a disease principally affecting exocrine glands but with systemic manifestations, is characterized by hypergammaglobulinaemia and the presence of a wide variety of autoantibodies. These are of several types, both organ and non-organ specific, complement-fixing, and precipitating antibodies, and in general are found in a higher proportion of patients than, for instance, in sy...