[Analysis of the blood serum after an injury to the rat submandibular gland].

Experiments on Wistar rats were carried out to examine the changes in protein, glycoprotein, enzymatic and antigenic blood content after sialotomy of the salivary gland with an object of detecting mitogens. It was demonstrated that injury is accompanied by a moderately pronounced dysproteinemia, an increase in the seromucoid fraction, 48 hours after injury, and by variation in the ratio of LDH isozyme fractions, characteristic of the anaerobic metabolic pattern. No antigens of the injured gland were seen in the blood. The evidence obtained does not confirm the participation of high-molecular proteins of the injured gland in the activation of distant proliferation in the corneal epithelium.