Humoral immune response to mycobacterial heat shock protein (hsp)65 in the cerebrospinal fluid of neuro‐Behçet patients
Humoral immune response to mycobacterial heat shock protein (hsp)65 in the cerebrospinal fluid of neuro‐Behçet patients
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Neuro-Behçet 患者脑脊液中分枝杆菌热休克蛋白 (hsp)65 的体液免疫反应
DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00620.x
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
G. Saruhan
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作者:
B. Taşcı;H. Direskeneli;P. Serdarog̃lu;G. Akman‐Demir;M. Eraksoy;G. Saruhan
Although systemic immune reactivity to 65‐kD mycobacterial hsp65 (m‐hsp65) has been shown previously in Behçet's disease (BD), local immune response was not investigated. We studied anti‐m‐hsp65 IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 25 BD patients with cerebral parenchymal involvement (p‐NBD), seven BD patients with intracranial hypertension (ih‐NBD), eight BD patients without central nervous system (CNS) involvement, 30 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 24 patients with non‐inflammatory CNS disorders (NIC). Significantly higher CSF IgG responses were detected in p‐NBD patients (ELISA ratio 1.3 ± 0.9) compared with NIC (0.7 ± 0.4, P < 0.01). In p‐NBD patients' IgG, IgM or IgA CSF anti‐m‐hsp65 positivity rate was 48% (12/25); this was significantly higher when compared with MS (3/30; P < 0.03) and NIC (3/24; P < 0.01). CSF anti‐m‐hsp65 IgG ratios correlated with the duration of BD (r = 0.4, P < 0.04) but not with the duration of neurological involvement. Serum IgM and IgA responses were elevated in ih‐NBD, suggesting a different type of involvement than p‐NBD. These results implicate an increased local humoral response to m‐hsp65 in the CSF of p‐NBD patients, which might be related to the pathogenesis of neurological involvement.