background: this study was undertaken to examine the reversibility of renal injury in the male new zealand white rabbits sub­se­quent to a 90-days exposure to uranyl nitrate (un) in drinking water. animals were exposed for 90 days to uranyl ni­trate in their drinking water (24 or 500mg/l). control group were given municipal tap water. methods: the indicators of kidney function measured in this ...

It has been recognized that the antibacterial sera produced by the immunization of the horse and the rabbit with Type I pneumococci, although possessing type specificity, exhibit marked differences in certain immunological properties. The distinctive characteristics of the two sera have interested numerous investigators, but as yet there is almost no evidence to indicate what constituents of th...

Two established international reference preparations (IRP) for thromboplastins, i.e. RBT/90 (rabbit, plain) and rTF/95 (recombinant human, plain) have been calibrated against each other in a 7-centre exercise performed in 2000. The purpose of the study was to compare the calibration results with those of the original calibration study performed in 1995. The international sensitivity index (ISI)...

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IT is always regarded as axiomatic that there is no possibility of a corneal graft being successful unless the donor material comes from an animal of the same species (Nizetic, 1934; Duke-Elder, 1938; Lister, 1951; Avello, 1951; etc.), but this dogma is open to question. Ortin (1914, 1916, 1931) performed penetrating grafts on rabbits, using donor material from other species; in every case a pe...

A major involvement of IFNalpha in the etiopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus has been suggested by clinical observations, including the increase of serum levels of this cytokine in patients with active disease. Supporting this hypothesis, we have shown that expression of IFNalpha from a recombinant adenovirus (IFNalpha Adv) precipitates lupus manifestations in genetically susceptible...

Ly49H(+) NK cells play a critical role in innate antiviral immune responses to murine CMV (MCMV). Ly49H(b6) recognition of MCMV-encoded m157 on infected cells activates natural killing required for host resistance. We show that mAb 3D10 (anti-Ly49H) recognizes comparable subsets of NK cells from New Zealand White (NZW), New Zealand Black (NZB), and C57BL/6 spleens. However, virus levels in the ...