RESUMEN
Employing a 51Cr release cytotoxicity microassay, and using both measles-and SSPE-infected target cells, four patients with documented SSPE were evaluated for specific cellular and humoral immunity. Mononuclear leukocytes from SSPE patients and control subjects exhibited comparable cytotoxicity. Serum and CSF from these SSPE patients inhibited the cellular response to SSPE-infected cells but not to measles-infected cells. Moreover, fresh whole serum alone from control donors produced significant 51Cr release from both cell lines, whereas SSPE whole serum was effective only against measles-infected cells. CSF from an additional ten patients with SSPE was examined for inhibitory activity: seven of these completely blocked and one partially blocked cell-mediated cytotoxicity to SSPE-infected cells. Preliminary characterization of the serum inhibitory factor suggested that it is IgM or antigen-antibody complexes. These data also suggest antigenic differences between the SSPE and measles viruses.
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Inmunidad Celular , Panencefalitis Esclerosante Subaguda/inmunología , Adolescente , Adulto , Animales , Anticuerpos Antivirales/análisis , Formación de Anticuerpos , Complejo Antígeno-Anticuerpo , Bovinos , Líquido Cefalorraquídeo/inmunología , Niño , Pruebas Inmunológicas de Citotoxicidad , Haplorrinos , Humanos , Lactante , Leucocitos/inmunología , Linfocitos/inmunología , Sarampión/inmunología , Virus del Sarampión/inmunología , Paramyxoviridae/inmunologíaRESUMEN
A significant depression in cell-mediated immunity as measured by lymphoproliferative responses to phytohemagglutinin and responsiveness to mixed lymphocyte culture was observed when adult lymphocytes or cord blood lymphocytes were incubated with increasing concentrations of bilirubin. The inhibitory effect of bilirubin could only be demonstrated with suboptimal concentrations of PHA (0.01 and 0.005%) and was more marked in premature infants than in term neonates or adults. This effect was partially reversible after short preincubation with bilirubin, but was more protracted with preincubations of 24 hours or more. Inhibition of MLC responsiveness of 80.1 plus or minus 5.1% was also demonstrated at a bilirubin concentration of 20 mg/dl. Specific cytotoxicity to rubella virus-infected cells, measured by a 51Cr-release microassay, was not found to be depressed. Bilirubin thus appears to have an inhibitory effect on immune responsiveness which is greater on the afferent limb than on the effrent limb of immunity.