The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 53, 641-645,
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
ABSORPTION OF PARTICULATE MATTER BY THE GREAT OMENTUM
Albert P. Batchelder 1,
Madeleine E. Field 1, and
Cecil K. Drinker M.D.1
1 From the Department of Physiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
When the omentum of the dog is floated in a suspension of insoluble nickel silicate in physiological saline under circumstances precluding the possibility of lymphatic drainage, the liver removed after at least 1 hour contains nickel which must have been brought to it by way of the blood capillaries in particulate form. The blood capillaries are, therefore, a pathway for absorption of solid material but are not important in this respect.
Submitted on February 19, 1931