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The effect of cortisone on Plasmodium berghei infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

O. Joy Roberts
Affiliation:
The Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Extract

Cortisone appears to enhance the production of some humoral agent in the serum of infected mice which, when injected in extremely small quantities into experimental, infected animals, produces a decrease in the parasitaemia in the peripheral blood. This effect is not produced by clean serum, and only slightly, if at all, by the serum from infected mice which have received no cortisone.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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