Browsing by Author "Podvinec, S. (6602457927)"

In three series of experiments on guinea pigs the authors have transferred sensitization to ovalbumin from sensitized animals to normal animals by means of a temporary skin graft which was explanted after staying in the recipient for 7 days. In the same way desensitization could also be transferred as an immunological information to sensitized animals. The authors conclude that sensitization and desensitization are coded and memorized in cell elements and can be transferred to a homologous animal in the shape of a molecular graft which becomes incorporated into the genetic system of immunologically competent cells. © 1969 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.

Examination of patients with different degrees of hearing loss or deafness in areas of endemic goitre has shown that more than half of the number had radiologic evidence of platybasia. The same could be found in cretins from these areas during clinical studies. Some of the findings are shown and compared with the radiological analysis of fetal skulls with physiological platybasia. These findings give strength to the assumption that a retardation in the development of the central nervous system has taken place early in fetal life as a result of the hypofunction of the fetal thyroid gland. © 1963 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.