The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 55, 155-162,
Copyright, 1932, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE ARTHUS PHENOMENON
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LOCAL ANAPHYLACTIC INFLAMMATION IN THE RABBIT PERICARDIUM, HEART, AND AORTA
David Seegal M.D.1,
Beatrice Carrier Seegal M.D.1, and
Elizabeth L. Jost 1
1 From the Departments of Medicine and Bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and The Presbyterian Hospital, New York
An intense inflammatory reaction in the pericardium, heart, and intrapericardial aorta can regularly be produced in a sensitized rabbit by the intrapericardial injection of the homologous antigen.
Submitted on August 5, 1931