IN VITRO AND IN VIVO ENHANCEMENT OF MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE REACTIVITY BY THYMOSIN IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE
IN VITRO AND IN VIVO ENHANCEMENT OF MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE REACTIVITY BY THYMOSIN IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASE
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胸腺肽对原发性免疫缺陷病患者混合淋巴细胞培养反应性的体外和体内增强
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
M. Cowan
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作者:
D. Wara;D. Barrett;A. Ammann;M. Cowan
Patients with primary cellular immunodeficiency disease usually die within the first years of life from ovetwhelming infection unless reconstitution of their immune system is carried out. Although bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical histocompatible donor remains the preferred therapy, such donors are rarely available. Fetal organ transplantation may reconstitute thymic-derived and/ or bone marrow-derived lymphocyte function,' but it places these patients at risk for developing graft-versus-host reactions.2 Therefore, lymphocyte-free thymic tissue extracts and cultured thymic epithelium are being evaluated as alternative methods of immunoreconstitution.3~ Thymosin fraction 5 , which contains at least 12 polypeptides, is one of several thymic extracts which have immune enhancing capabilities. Thymosin F5 partially restores cellular immunity in neonatal or adult thymectomized mice.6-8 Mouse bone marrow or spleen cell preparations incubated with thymosin fraction 5, have increased numbers of cells bearing thymic-derived lymphocyte (T-cell) surface antigens.', Peripheral blood or bone marrow lymphocytes isolated from patients with primary or secondary cellular immunodeficiency disease form increased numbers of T-cell rosettes after incubation with thymosin fraction 5.3~9-11 Lymphocytes obtained from some patients with cellular immunodeficiency have an enhanced response to allogeneic cells in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC:) following incubation with thymosin fraction 5. During the past 4.5 years, we have treated 18 patients with various cellular immunodeficiency diseases with thymosin fraction 5. The patients had recurrent infection and no response to traditional therapy or enhanced T-cell rosette formation and/or MLC reactivity with thymosin fraction 5 incubation prior to initiation of therapy. We documented that increased T-cell rosette formation following lymphocyte incubation with thymosin in vitro before the initiation of therapy usually predicted increased T-cell numbers in vivo following therapy. We observed that, following therapy with thymosin fraction 5 , there is often discordance between normalization of T-cell numbers and improvement of T-cell function.*' The MLC reactivity of 18 patients with a variety of cellular immunodeficiencies who have received in vivo thymosin therapy form the basis of this report. We have attempted to retrospectively correlate changes in MLC reactivity