SURFACE TENSION OF SERUM

Surface Tension of Serum

An attempt was made to apply to the study of immune sera the fact, pointed out in our previous papers, that at a given dilution the serum shows a maximum drop of surface tension in function of time (time-drop). The results of the experiments here reported would seem to indicate that: 1. The time-drop of a serum solution is greater after the animal has been immunized than before immunization (fr...

Surface Tension of Serum

As stated in previous papers, 1-4 the four essential conditions under which the presence of antibodies in immune serum can be detected and followed by means of what might be termed the tensiometric method are: first, the dilution of the serum to 1:10,000; second, the use of strictly clean vessels; third, the care in handling the solutions, which must absolutely not be disturbed between the two ...

The Surface Tension of Blood Serum, and the Determination of the Surface Tension of Biological Fluids.

This investigation was undertaken in order to obtain a more exact knowledge of the surface tension of undiluted blood serum, and its variation under various clinical conditions, than is given by the work reported earlier by others (1-12). It was found that practically all previous investigators have made errors in the experimental procedure or in the calculation of their results, usually in bot...

Spontaneous Decrease of the Surface Tension of Serum. I

1. Over 3,000 measurements of surface tension of sera have been made with the ring method, and they have yielded a new phenomenon, the spontaneous and rapid decrease of the surface tension of a serum in function of the time. 2. Generally, after 10 minutes the surface tension reaches a value which is practically constant. At least, the decrease is very much slower. After stirring, a rise occurs ...

The Surface Tension of the Blood Serum in Hyperthyroidism.