[Infectious allergy. XIV. Histochemical changes in redox enzymes in cells of the small intestine smooth muscle during sensitization with diphtheria exotoxin].

Administration to guinea pigs of 1/Dlm of diphtheria exotoxin twice at an interval of 1 and 24 hours, or once in a dose of 25/100 Dlm caused changes in the activity of the redox enzymes. The character of their changes in the animals to which the whole dose of the exotoxin was administered once or repeatedly was directly reverse: in the first case the activity of the enzymes was uniformly increased, and in the second--ununiformly depressed; besides, there was a marked disturbance of coordination between the enzymes. An increased sensitivity of the infectious allergy type following injection of low doses of diphtheria exotoxin was not accompanied by immunity formation. Specific antibodies against diphtheria exotoxin formed only in the organism of animals to which 1/100 Dlm of diphtheria toxin was injected once a day for 15 days, but in this case as well no immunity against diphtheria exotoxin was observed.