The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 118, 315-326,
Copyright © 1963, by The Rockefeller Institute
PLASMA PROTEIN FORMATION IN VITRO BY TISSUES FROM MICE INFECTED WITH STAPHYLOCOCCI
Curtis A. Williams Jr. PhD.1,
Richard Asofsky M.D.1, and
G. Jeanette Thorbecke M.D.1
1 From The Rockefeller Institute and New York University Medical Center, New York
Isotopic labeling of plasma proteins in vitro by tissues from staphylococcal-infected and control mice was examined, using autoradiography of immunoelectrophoretic patterns. The results indicate that in infected animals there is hyperactivity of liver tissue in producing albumin,
- and ß-globulins, and of spleen tissue in producing immune globulins. The observed increase in labeling of some proteins by tissues from infected mice is to a large extent correlated with an increase of these proteins in the serum.
Submitted on April 11, 1963