Opsonic

This example of contagious mammitis should admonish those who think it enough to determine the opsonic strength to be able to judge how an illness or indeed immunity is faring. ❋ Unknown (1967)

He even judges the progress of immunity and cure according to the opsonic strength of the blood fluid. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Faced with such facts, some scientists stress the need to study not only the opsonic property of blood fluid but also to take into account the phagocytic function of the white corpuscles themselves. ❋ Unknown (1967)

In the treatment of illness by Dr. Wright's vaccinotherapy, the phagocytosis shows the opsonic strength of the blood. ❋ Unknown (1967)

We said above that this method was coming to be joined by that of determination of the property of phagocytes, independently of the opsonic action in itself. ❋ Unknown (1967)

The effect of the injection of a small quantity of vaccine is usually to produce an increase in the opsonic index within a few days. ❋ Various (N/A)

One of the chief objects in registering the opsonic power in such cases is to avoid the introduction of additional vaccine when the opsonic index is low, that is, during the negative phase, as if this were done a further diminution of the opsonic action might result. ❋ Various (N/A)

In estimating the opsonic power of the serum in cases of disease a control with normal serum is made at the same time and under precisely the same conditions. ❋ Various (N/A)

The object in such treatment is to raise the opsonic index of the serum, this being taken as an indication of increased immunity. ❋ Various (N/A)

Variations in chemiotaxis towards different organisms probably depend in natural conditions, as well as in active immunity, upon the opsonic content of the serum. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of these the most important are (a) bacteriolytic or lysogenic action, (b) agglutinative action, and (c) opsonic action. ❋ Various (N/A)

If the amounts of vaccine used and the times of the injection are suitably chosen, there may thus be produced by a series of steps a rise of the opsonic index to a high level. ❋ Various (N/A)

This fraction, expressed as a percentage of unity = the _opsonic index_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The opsonic action of the serum has been employed by Sir A. Wright and his co-workers to control the treatment of bacterial infections by vaccines; that is, by injections of varying amounts of a dead culture of the corresponding bacterium. ❋ Various (N/A)

A large number of favourable results obtained by such treatment controlled by the observation of the opsonic index have already been published, but it would be unwise at present to offer a decided opinion as to the ultimate value of the method. ❋ Various (N/A)

Chicago for a man who's made a speciality of opsonic treatment for pneumonia. ❋ Max Rittenberg (N/A)

If then an additional quantity of vaccine be injected there occurs a fall in the opsonic index (negative phase) which, however, is followed later by a rise to a higher level than before. ❋ Various (N/A)

In regulating the administration of such vaccines he has introduced the method of observing the _opsonic index_, to which reference is made below. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the method for demonstrating opsonin about to be described, a comparison is made between the opsonic "power" of the pooled serum and the specific serum. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is now generally admitted that at least two distinct classes of substances are concerned in opsonic action, that thermostable immune opsonins are developed as a result of active immunization and these possess the specific properties of anti-substances in general, that is, act only on the corresponding bacterium. ❋ Various (N/A)