The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 65, 557-564,
Copyright, 1937, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
EXPERIMENTAL NEPHRITIS IN RATS INDUCED BY INJECTION OF ANTI-KIDNEY SERUM
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IV. PREVENTION OF THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF NEPHROTOXIN IN VIVO BY KIDNEY EXTRACT
Homer F. Swift M.D.1 and
Joseph E. Smadel M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
A saline extract of perfused rat kidney administered intravenously to rats immediately before injecting an anti-rat-kidney serum, by the same route, prevents renal damage. A preliminary injection of physiological salt solution or of an extract of perfused rat liver has no preventive effect.
These findings are a further indication that the nephrotoxic effect induced by anti-kidney serum is dependent upon a relatively organ specific antibody, nephrotoxin.
Submitted on January 18, 1937