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A method for the quantitative determination of lysozyme activity in blood

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The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

Discussion and Conclusion

The above described bacteriolytic (turbidimetric) method of determining the lysozyme activity in the blood has been proven to be reliable, reproducible and applicable simultaneously to a large number of determinations. A wide range of concentration of crystalline egg-white lysozyme which had been added to whole blood was recovered quantitatively.

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  1. Otto E. Lobstein

    Present address: Chem-Tech Laboratories, Beverly Hills, California

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  1. Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School and Department of Surgery, Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

    Samuel J. Fogelson, Alfred Ross & Otto E. Lobstein

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These studies were supported in part by a grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, Midland, Michigan.

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Fogelson, S.J., Ross, A. & Lobstein, O.E. A method for the quantitative determination of lysozyme activity in blood. Amer. Jour. Dig. Dis. 21, 327–331 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02883952

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