VARIATIONS OF SERUM PROTEIN IN HIGH ALTITUDE

Abstract

The investigation was performed by electrophoresis on the changes of serum protein of ten normal subjects, who stayed in our research laboratory after the bus-trip to Mt. Norikura, high altitude with 2, 740 meters above the sea-level, without any physical labor. The results are as follows:
1) The amount of total protein decreases slightly in early stage right after the trip then in all cases it recovers to show a certain value one week later.
2) Albumin fraction and A/G ratio tend rather to increase in early stage, and to decrease on the 3rd and 5th day, then return to original value.
3) No marked change appears in α-globulin fraction and β-globulin.
4) γ-globulin fraction distinctly increases on the fifth day after the bus-trip to high altitude.