[Study of anti-T-agglutinins in active and inactivated human sera (author's transl)].

Anti-T-agglutinins were found in 252 of 283 human sera investigated applying the two-step neuraminidase test and using an RDE-preparation of czechoslovakian origin. Storage and heating of the sera was followed by a reduction or loss of T-agglutination dependent on the time of incubation at 4 degrees C and 56 degrees C. This was proved to be caused by the inactivation of the anti-T-agglutinins and not by the loss of complement.

An attempt to eliminate platelet antibodies from antilymphocyte serum (ALS) by absorption with unwashed human erythrocytes.

After repeated, 10-20 absorptions of ALS with one-half of its volume of unwashed human erythrocytes, performed each time for 30 min. at room temperature, the titres of the undesired thrombo-agglutinins and thrombolysins can be reduced or these antibodies can be eliminated from ALS. After absorption anticomplementarity of ALS increases and the lymphocytotoxin titre declines.

[The effect of heating and drugs on HL-A antigens and their reactions with cytotoxins].

In some instances the heating of lymphocytes for 2 to 3 minutes at 56 degrees C enhances HL-A antigens or makes it possible to detect these antigens by a twostage microlymphocytotoxic test on preheated lymphocytes only. Similar phenomenons are observed in some tannin (1: 40 000) or 0.1% phenol-treated lymphocytes and after the addition of these solutions during the first stage of the lymphocytotoxic test.

[Studies on changes in lymphocyte HL-A antigens during the course of malignant diseases].

The presence of HL-A antigens 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 and 12 on the lymphocytes of 26 patients with blood diseases and malignant tumours was examined by means of the two-step microcytotoxicity test. The studies carried out several times in the course of the disease and with 4 to 5 sera of the same specificity. Two types of the serological modifications were found: 1.