Blood, 1953, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 651-654.
© 1953 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Production of Nucleophagocytosis by Rabbit
Antileukocytic Serum
HYMAN J. ZIMMERMAN M.D.1,
JOHN R. WALSH M.D.1, and
PAUL HELLER M.D.1
1 Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital, Omaha, Neb.
Dried buffy coat layer of the blood from a patient with granulocytic leukemia
was injected into a rabbit. Serum from this rabbit, when mixed with the buffy
coat layer of the blood from the same patient, resulted in the production of
nucleophagocytosis. The serum of the rabbit also showed the ability to produce
marked conglutination and destruction of the neutrophilic polymorphonuclear
leukocytes.
Submitted on December 22, 1952
Accepted on March 29, 1953