The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 28, 415-419,
Copyright © 1945 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE EFFECT OF PENICILLIN ON METHYLENE BLUE ADSORPTION ONTO ACTIVATED CHARCOAL
Richard J. Henry 1 and
Maryon D. Henry 1
1 From the Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Penicillin inhibits the adsorption of methylene blue onto activated charcoal in concentrations as low as 100 units/ml.
Penicillin in the low inhibitory concentration of 100 units/ml, antagonizes to a small extent the strong inhibition of MB adsorption by 0.1, 0.2, and 1 per cent peptone.
Submitted on January 31, 1945