[Role of hyperbaric oxygenation in mechanisms correcting the immunological reactivity in endotoxic shock and serum sickness]. / Rol' giperbaricheskoi oksigenatsii v mekhanizmakh korrektsii immunologicheskoi reaktivnosti organizma pri éndotoksinovom shoke i syvorotochnoi bolezni.

The adaptation effect of hyperbaric oxygenation (3.0 Ata for 60 min) on white rats and mice with acute serum sickness is due to stimulation of non-pathogenic circulating immune complexes which do not fix the complement nor induce immune injuries to the kidneys. This promotes recovery of nephron ultrafiltration and decreases proteinuria. Hyperbaric oxygenation stimulates immunity in endotoxin shock by activating the humoral immunity and specific immune response.