Effects of lysozyme dimer on humoral response to sheep erythrocytes in non-treated and cyclophosphamide-immunosuppressed mice.

The effects of lysozyme dimer on humoral response to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) and restoration of the response impaired by a single cyclophosphamide dose (200 mg/kg) were tested on mice. The effect of lysozyme dimer on the humoral response to SRBC in non-treated with cyclophosphamide mice was determined in relation to doses (0.2, 2, 20 or 200 micrograms/kg) and the time of the drug administration with respect to the antigen before or after SRBC immunization.

Effects of levamisole, DTC and low-dose mechlorethamine on humoral response of SRBC-immunized rabbits exposed to cold stress.

The experiments were carried out on normothermal rabbits and rabbits exposed to cold stress (hypothermia). The animals of the latter group were submerged in ice-water for 20 s and then placed in a freezer at -15 degrees C for 8 min until their body temperature dropped by 3 degrees C. Both the normothermal and hypothermal rabbits were immunized i.

The influence of long-term administration of Tołpa Peat Preparation on immune reactivity in mice. III. The effect on primary humoral response to sheep erythrocytes.

Tołpa Peat Preparation (TPP) was administered to mice in daily doses of 1, 10 and 50 mg.kg-1 for 3, 5, 7, 9 or 12 consecutive weeks. After each of the above mentioned periods the primary response to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) was examined by determination of the percentage of splenocytes forming E rosettes, the number of splenocytes producing anti-SRBC haemolysins of 19S and 7S type, and the level of serum haemagglutinins to SRBC (19S + 7S and 7S types).

The influence of long-term administration of Tołpa Peat Preparation on immune reactivity in mice. II. The effect of intermittent TPP administration on the morphological picture of lymphatic organs.

The studies were conducted on 200 Balb/c mice (inbred strain), aged 8 weeks. The mice were administered Tołpa Peat Preparation (TPP) in drinking water (10 or 50 mg/kg/day) for seven weeks (experiment I). Two lobes of the thymus, the spleen and the axillary and mesenteric lymph nodes of mice were taken for histological examinations after 3, 5 and 7 weeks of continuous TPP treatment and also 12 and 16 weeks from the beginning of the treatment.

The influence of long-term administration of Tołpa Peat Preparation on immune reactivity in mice. I. Morphological changes in the thymus.

In experiment I BALB/c 200 mice were given in drinking water the TPP (Tołpa Peat Preparation) in daily doses of 1, 10 and 50 mg/kg over the period of 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 weeks. In experiment II before the administration of TPP (as in experiment I) mice were immunized with a single dose i.p.