Abstract
Summary and conclusions
Epidermal thermal injury in dogs resulted in an elevation of total polysaccharide in both lymph and serum and of the polysaccharide of both the albumin and α-globulin (pseudoglobulin) fractions isolated by salt precipitation methods. The elevation of the polysaccharide of the albumin fraction was shown to be due to an elevation of the mucoprotein polysaccharide. The mucoprotein content of the lymph and serum from the same animal were nearly the same indicating that this component may pass easily between tissue fluids and blood plasma. Preliminary studies of the effects of adrenocorticotropic hormone on animals with epidermal thermal injuries indicate that this substance has no effect on the elevation of mucoprotein, but may repress the elevation of α-globulin polysaccharide.
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