Cunningham D S, Grogl M, Kuhn R E
Infect Immun. 1980 Nov;30(2):496-9. doi: 10.1128/iai.30.2.496-499.1980.
Peripheral blood leukocytes from patients serologically positive for Chagas' disease were examined for their ability to respond to heterologous antigens in vitro. It was found that mononuclear cells from chagasic patients had greatly reduced ability to respond to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) as compared with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from control subjects. The reduction in anti-SRBC antibody activity was independent of antigen dose and was not a result of differences in antibody response kinetics. Depletion of plastic-adherent result of differences in antibody response kinetics. Depletion of plastic-adherent cells from the PBMC of patients did not affect the suppressed state of the nonadherent lymphocytes. No relationship was evident between the duration of Trypanosoma cruzi infection and the degree of humoral responsiveness.
对恰加斯病血清学阳性患者的外周血白细胞进行体外检测,以观察其对异源抗原的反应能力。结果发现,与对照受试者的外周血单个核细胞(PBMC)相比,恰加斯病患者的单个核细胞对绵羊红细胞(SRBC)的反应能力大大降低。抗SRBC抗体活性的降低与抗原剂量无关,也不是抗体反应动力学差异的结果。从患者的PBMC中去除贴壁细胞并不会影响非贴壁淋巴细胞的抑制状态。克氏锥虫感染的持续时间与体液反应程度之间没有明显关系。