[Determination of the gliotoxie and demyelinating properties of serum in organ cultures of brain in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis].

The report contains some results of a study of the blood serum taken from guinea pigs and macacus rhesus with allergic encephalomyelitis to a glyotoxic and demyelinizing effect in an organ culture of the brain in newborn rats and adult macacus rhesus. It was demonstrated that the test has a high specificity to a glyotoxic effect of the blood serum in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and a less specificity to demyelinization in vitro. The authors describe in detail the method of studying the serum in organ brain cultures.