FAILURE OF PRETREATMENT WITH GLUCOCORTICOIDS TO MODIFY PHAGOCYTIC AND BACTERICIDAL CAPACITY OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTES FOR ENCAPSULATED TYPE I PNEUMOCOCCUS
FAILURE OF PRETREATMENT WITH GLUCOCORTICOIDS TO MODIFY PHAGOCYTIC AND BACTERICIDAL CAPACITY OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTES FOR ENCAPSULATED TYPE I PNEUMOCOCCUS
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.89.5.1256-1261.1965
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
ADCOCK, MH
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作者:
ALLISON, F;ADCOCK, MH
The influence of gluco-corticoid administration for 4 days upon the bactericidal and phagocytic functions of leukocytes recovered from venous blood of healthy human beings was evaluated within an in vitro system that contained fully virulent, type I pneumococcus. Ingestion of pneumococcus by granulocytes spread upon a suitable surface, followed by thin slide cultures of the preparation, permitted precise quantitation of cellular phagocytic functions. It was found that granulocytes from healthy donors subjected to short-term glucocorticoid treatment ingested and killed pneumococcus as well as did cells obtained before therapy. Human leukocytes obtained after treatment with prednisolone functioned in a suspending medium of high ionic strength as well as did cells harvested before treatment, although the efficiency of both groups was significantly less than when manipulated in autologous serum.