[Characteristics of the development of acute toxic hepatitis in rats stimulated with prodigiozan].

Acute toxic hepatitis was induced in Wistar rats by means of a single injection of 40% CCl4 on a peach-kernell oil base (0.2 ml/100 g body weight). Under conditions of stimulation with the bacterial polysaccharide prodigiosan, the resistance of hepatocytes to CCl4 sharply increased, which was shown by diminished severity of hepatic parenchyma destruction.