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CHEMICAL CHANGES IN THE BLOOD OF THE DOG IN EXPERIMENTAL BILE PERITONITIS
1University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas.
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
Abstract:
1. Changes in the chemistry of the blood of dogs with experimental bile peritonitis are here reported. 2. In all animals that died, a bile ascites was found. 3. Dogs dying of bile peritonitis showed a constant increase in the blood non-protein and urea nitrogen, and a fall in the chlorides.
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