Studies in isoagglutination. III. Tonicity in isohemagglutination / by Morris H. Kahn and Reuben Ottenberg.

  • Kahn, Morris H.
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[1911]
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    TABLE III. Sodium chlorid so- — 1 lution (per cent.). 0.3S 0.40 0 42 0.44 0.46 Amount of hemolysis (per cent.). Group I 60 50 40 80 80 80 40 40 30 60 60 70 20 15 10 20 40 40 10 5 0 5 10 10 0 0 0 0 5 5 Group II 70 80 90 60 40 80 30 40 60 15 10 20 5 5 10 Group III 90 80 60 40 20 Correlating our results, we see that instances of high and of low tonicity occur with about equal frequency in the groups of agglu- tinable and non-agglutinable cells. We therefore conclude that there is no support for the opinion that isoagglutination of human blood is due simply to variations of molecular concentration. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Decastello and Sturli, Miinchen. med. Wchnschr., 1902, xlix, 1090. Donath, Wien. klin. Wchnschr., 1900, xiii, 497. Halban, Wien. klin. Wchnschr., 1900, xiii, 545. Halban and Landsteiner, Miinchen. med. Wchnschr., 1902, xlix, 473. Hamburger, Centralbl. f. Physiol,, 1893, vii, 161, 656. Hektoen, Jour. Infect. Dis., 1907, iv, 297. Landsteiner Centralbl. f. Bakt., ite Abt., 1900, xxvii, 361; Wien. klin. Wchnschr., 1901, xiv, 1132; Miinchen. med. Wchnschr., 1902, xlix, 1905. Landsteiner and Leiner, Centralbl. f. Bakt., Orig., 1905, xxxviii, 548 Landsteiner and Richter, Ztschr. f. Med.-Beamte, 1903, xvi, 85. Moss, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1910, xxi, 63. Peskind, Am. Jour. Med. Sc., 1904, cxxvii, 1011. Theobald Smith, Jour. Med. Research, 1904, xii, 38=. Sutherland and McCay, Biochem. Jour., 1910, v. 1.