Experimental Transfusion in Rabbits, Guinea-pigs, Rats, and Mice of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Plasma

Abstract
Plasma transfusion experiments were carried out on 609 rabbits, guinea-pigs, rats, and mice, with plasma obtained from three patients with S. L. E. Serum from these patients had enabled the L. E.-cell phenomenon to be transferred to man and dog, but this transfer was not effected in the 609 animals, even with much greater amounts of transfused plasma, reckoned in ml./kg. body weight. In chronic experiments on 21 guinea-pigs, no L. E.-cell phenomenon was produced, even after repeated transfusions of plasma, and no change characteristic of S. L. E. was found either histologically or by laboratory investigation.