The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Track the topics, authors and articles important to you
  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search | Table of Contents
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Services
Right arrow Email this article
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new content in the JEM
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Wiener, A. S.
Right arrow Articles by Silverman, I. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Wiener, A. S.
Right arrow Articles by Silverman, I. J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 71, 21-27, Copyright, 1940, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

ARTICLE

PERMEABILITY OF THE HUMAN PLACENTA TO ANTIBODIES : A QUANTITATIVE STUDY



Alexander S. Wiener M.D.1 and I. Jerome Silverman M.D.1

1 From the Serological and Bacteriological Laboratory of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the Bellevue Hospital Out-Patient Department Laboratory of the Department of Hospitals of New York City, New York

The ratio of the titers of various antibodies, namely, hemagglutinins and syphilitic reagin, in the maternal blood to that of the corresponding antibody in the cord blood was found to be relatively constant, falling somewhere between 8 and 16. This figure may be considered the "index of permeability" of human placenta to antibodies, or the coefficient of distribution of antibodies between maternal and cord blood. The possible application of these findings to the study of the placental permeability to sensitizing antibodies (or reagins) is discussed.

Submitted on October 4, 1939


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?




  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search
TABLE OF CONTENTS