Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1959;41:1482-1488.
© 1959 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
Immunological Factors in Homogenous-Bone Transplantation
III. The Inability of Homogenous Rabbit Bone to Induce Circulating Antibodies in Rabbits
Paul H. Curtiss JR. M.D.1,
A. E. Powell PH.D.1, and
Charles H. Herndon 1
1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Department of Surgery of the Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland
Groups of rabbits were injected with soluble and insoluble portions of rabbit bone. No circulating antibody could be detected by binding of radioiodinated gamma globulin, erythrocyte hemagglutination, or agar-gel diffusion.
Insignificant differences in properdin titer were observed in rabbit sera following experimentally produced fractures, autografts, and homografts.