[Skeletal muscle antigens bound with a polyurethane glue]

The reaction of anaphylaxia with desensibilization on guinea pigs and the method of double diffusion in agar gel were used to study the antigenic composition of the rat skeletal muscles 3, 7 and 30 days after their cross sections were connected with polyurethane glue and silk. It is shown that in the postoperative period, besides antigens similar to those of the normal muscles, other antigens which may belong to stage-specific ones appears in the fraction of soluble proteins. The antigenic composition of the skeletal muscles is the same with both methods of connection of the tissues defects.