Experimental Studies on the Infectious Hepatitis

Clinical and experimental studies of infectious hepatitis.

Studies on the Agent of Infectious Hepatitis

The successful cultivation of the virus of infectious hepatitis in chick embryo tissue culture and in the amniotic cavity of the embryonated hen's egg is supported by a comparison of the disease induced in volunteers by the cultivated virus with hepatitis without jaundice resulting from experimental infection with natural infectious hepatitis virus. Both types of viral preparations produced ill...

Studies on Infectious Canine Hepatitis Ii : Histopathological Studies on Experimental Cases

Studies on Infectious Canine Hepatitis Ii : Histopathological Studies on Experimental Cases

Studies on the disturbance of glucuronide formation in infectious hepatitis.

The ability of the liver to form glucuronides was measured in 10 patients with infectious hepatitis. One test was done at the onset and another about four weeks later after the clinical symptoms had disappeared. N-acetyl-p-aminophenol (N.A.P.A.) or acetanilide was administered in doses ranging from 10 to 20 mg. per kg. body weight, either orally or by intravenous injection. N.A.P.A. is conjugat...