Immunologic reactions after experimental cryosurgery to the reproductive system of the male rabbit. I. The humoral response.
Single cryoinjuries to the accessory reproductive organs and to the gonads of normal adult male rabbits elicit antibody responses in 35.8 and 11.9 per cent of the cases, respectively. The antibodies display agglutinating and precipitating properties against extracts of the organ that underwent the freezing injury, but do not react in the presence of extracts of other organs of the rabbit. Repeated cryoinjuries raise both the percentage of reacting animals (up to 100 per cent after four successive cryostimulations, in some cases) and the titer of the humoral responses, which, in addition, endure longer in blood than do responses to single stimuli. These humoral phenomena are the expression of immunologic reactions mounted by the host animals against "self" components, regarded, however, as "nonself" by their surveillance apparatus.
D000371:Agglutination; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000941:Antigens; D003452:Cryosurgery; D004822:Epididymis / Q000276:immunology; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000276:immunology* / Q000601:surgery; D007109:Immunity; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D011467:Prostate / Q000276:immunology; D011817:Rabbits; D012098:Reproduction; D012669:Seminal Vesicles / Q000276:immunology; D013737:Testis / Q000276:immunology; D014649:Vas Deferens / Q000276:immunology
D000906:Antibodies; D000941:Antigens