The quantitative determination of the extent of despeciation of modified equine antitoxin. 1. A method is presented for estimating the relative reactivity with respect to horse serum of antitoxins processed from horse plasma, by observing skin reactions of sensitized rabbits.
2. It is feasible to test 4 preparations, each on 3 rabbits, with standard fiducial limits of from 53% to 188% of the true value.
3. As the sensitizing dose was increased, the relative reactivity of a given test material appeared greater. The function was asymptotic at higher dose levels.
4. The greater the sensitizing dose, the smaller was the variance of the relative reactivity within its replicates.
5. M...
Some aspects of the desoxyribonuclease activities of animal tissues. It has been found that many animal tissues contain "acid" desoxyribonucleases with pH optima near 5.2. A chemical method for the determination of this activity is described. The pancreatic desoxyribonuclease crystallized by Kunitz and shown to have a neutral pH optimum occurs in the pancreas together with the "acid" enzyme, but only the "neutral" enzyme occurs in the pancreatic juice. The ratio of "neutral" to "acid" DNAase activities in the pancreas is greater than 200, but in all other tissues examined there is no appreciable concentration of the neutral enzyme. It is concluded that neutral ...
California encephalitis virus, a newly described agent. In three cases of encephalitis in humans that occurred in the area where the newly described California virus was isolated from mosquitoes, serological evidence seemed to indict the California virus as the etiological agent. In the case of an infant with very severe disease, the serological evidence was convincing; the evidence was almost as strong in the case of a seven-year-old boy; the results in an adult were equivocal. Inapparent infection in man is quite common as indicated by neutralization tests on the sera of nearly 600 residents of California, but encephalitic manifestations of infec...
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