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Nucleic Acid Content of Inflammatory Cells

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IT is generally known that, during the inflammatory process, morphologically different cell-types appear in a certain sequence in the exudate. Recently, on the basis of autoradiographic experiments, Speirs et al.1 have reported that eosinophil polymorpho-nuclear cells were phagocytized by mononuclear cells and this phenomenon is probably responsible for the synthesis of antibodies in these cells.

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  1. Speirs, R. S., Symposium on the Detection and Use of Tritium in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Vienna, 1961.

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  2. Köteles, G. J., Antoni, F., and Szabó, L. D., Acta Phys. Acad. Sci. Hung. (in the press).

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KÖTELES, G., ANTONI, F. & HIDVÉGI, E. Nucleic Acid Content of Inflammatory Cells. Nature 195, 704 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195704a0

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