[Morphology of ferritin-induced shock in sensitized guinea pigs]

With the aid of morphological methoda, differences have been described between the active ferritin shock and the ferritin-antiferritin shock in guinea-pigs, which clinically appear as identical. The two processes can be differentiated from each other on the light microscopical level, but with particular clarity on the electron microscopical level. In contrast to the active ferritin shock, the guinea pigs in whom the ferritin-antiferritin shock had been produced showed agglomerates of platelets and ferritin-antiferritin complexes either present free in the dirculation or ingested in macrophages or granulocytes.