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Experimental Suppression of the Early Inflammatory Phenomena of Turpentine Pleurisy in Rats

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PREVIOUS work1–3 has indicated that the increased capillary permeability and resultant exudate that follows intrapleural injection of turpentine in rats might be due at first to local release of histamine or 5-hydroxytryptamine, or both, and later to activation of other mechanisms.

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SPECTOR, W., WILLOUGHBY, D. Experimental Suppression of the Early Inflammatory Phenomena of Turpentine Pleurisy in Rats. Nature 181, 708–709 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181708a0

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