The effect of hyposensitization on alternaria-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis |
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Authors: | J A Anderson S R Lane W A Howard S Leiken J J Oppenheim |
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Affiliation: | 1. Sections on Allergy and Hematology, Research Foundation of the Children''s Hospital of DC, Department of Child Health and Development of George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, U.S.A.;2. The National Institute of Dental Research, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Twenty-one atopic children were treated with alternaria hyposensitization therapy. Leukocytes from these children were cultured with and without alternaria and phytohemagglutinin prior to treatment, and after 6 and 12 months of treatment. Patients demonstrating positive immediate cutaneous hypersensitivity showed significant lymphocyte transformation prior to hyposensitization whereas the skin test-negative patients did not. The skin test-negative patients developed significant lymphocyte transformation after 6 months of hyposensitization. Twelve months after the initiation of therapy both skin test-negative and skin test-positive patients showed a decreased lymphocyte reactivity, and there was no longer any significant change in the concomitant phytohemagglutinin responses indicating that hyposensitization had a specific effect on alternaria-induced in vitro lymphocyte reactivity. Plasma factors were found to have modulating effects on the lymphocyte reactivity of hyposensitized patients. |
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