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Antibody deficiency in hibernating bats (Myotis myotis S.) was shown by precipitin reaction. Theγ-globulins in serum of hibernating bats decreased to one half of the normal value. There is significant leukopenia, lymphopenia and eosinopenia. Injected bovine albumin was completely removed within 9 days in active animals, in torpid animals only 1/25 was absorbed from the 6th to the 23rd day.
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Jaeger, R. Serologisch-hämatologische und immunologische Untersuchungen an winterschlafenden Fledermäusen (Myotis myotis S.). Experientia 19, 596–598 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02151011
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