Clotting of Blood In vivo by Aqueous Homologous Lung Extract, Some Clinical Implications

Autor: W. P. Larson, A. B. Baker, H. H. Noran
Rok vydání: 1945
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Zdroj: Experimental Biology and Medicine. 59:196-197
ISSN: 1535-3699
1535-3702
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-59-15030p
Popis: Pathological studies of the brain in patients dying of pneumonia encephalitis revealed primarily vascular thrombi and hemorrhages. The cerebral lesions were similar regardless of the etiological agent causing the pneumonia, thus suggesting that the cerebral lesions were probably produced by some product of the injured lung tissue.In an attempt to produce experimentally the lesions of pneumonia encephalitis, rabbit lungs were homogenized with a tissue homogenizer which reduced the tissues to the consistency of a gruel. This homogenized tissue was then diluted 1 to 25 with saline solution and filtered through paper. When this saline extract was injected intravenously into rabbits in amounts of .5 to 1 cc, death ensued in from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This rabbit lung extract proved to be rapidly fatal to all animals of the species producing nystagmus, ataxia, convulsions, and death. Intravenous injections of similar or larger amounts of extracts of other organs such as brain, liver, kidney, intestine, splee...
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