ABOUT EXTRACTION OF DYSENTERIAL ANTIGEN BY THE KIDNEY

Among the various mechanisms that determine the state of immunity, both phagocytosis and humoral factors of immunity play an important role. However, these factors do not exhaust all the body's defense mechanisms against infection. We must not forget that in the process of a disease, for example, dysentery, the body is flooded with antigenic substances, which largely determine the clinical picture of the disease. Removal of these antigenic substances from the body is one of the important defense mechanisms, since this form of defense plays a certain role in the entire sum of immunological processes that develop during the course of the disease and cause the onset of recovery. As will be seen from the further presentation, in acute dysentery ending in recovery, by the end of the disease the ability to cleanse the body of the dysentery antigen reaches a significant height. In chronic dysentery, this ability does not develop, and, in particular, the kidneys do not acquire the properties of increased concentration and rapid removal of antigenic substances from the body.