126 NEUTRON EFFECTS ON ANIMALS 



-y-gloloiilin concentration paralleled that of the white cell count. The ob- 

 served changes in 7-globulin concentration may have occurred as a sec- 

 ondary effect of variation in lymphocyte numl^er. 



Subseciuently, and concomitant with the appearance of marked losses in 

 health of the animals, a depletion in albumin together with an increase in 

 the globulins and fibrinogen occurred in the plasma. These plasma changes 

 might have resulted in part from infection, starvation, or from the destruc- 

 tion of the tissues of liver, kidney, or other organs. 



Direct irradiation of rabbit blood plasma produced no significant changes 

 in the electrophoretic pattern of the plasma. 



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