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Precipitins for blood proteins disappeared from the circulating blood of rabbits immunized with renal and hepatic tissue as soon as these antigens are exhausted from the injected-tissue depots. The exhaustion of the tissue-proteins usually takes a much longer time. This provides a method for the preparation of tissue antisera. Extracts of fresh liver and kidney do not give precipitative reactions with the antisera, but the autolyzed products of these organs do, Liver-autolysate seems to have an antigenic factor in common with the autolysate of kidney, pancreas, spleen, adrenals, and thyroids. Kidney-autolysate has an antigenic factor in common with liver but not with any of the other above-mentioned organ-autolysates.
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