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. 1983 Feb;51(2):351–358.

Depressed spontaneous cell-mediated cytotoxicity in Crohn's disease.

W L Beeken, B R Macpherson, R M Gundel, S St Andre-Ukena, S G Wood, D L Sylwester
PMCID: PMC1536878  PMID: 6601555

Abstract

Cytotoxicity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 30 patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and 30 matched controls was assayed by measuring isotope release from 75Se-L-methionine labelled RPMI 4788 human colon cancer cells. Effector populations were studied with and without monocyte depletion after 4 and 24 hr incubations in 10% fetal calf serum or autologous serum or plasma. Cytotoxicity was negligible at 4 hr. Twenty-four hour cytotoxicity was consistently lower in CD patients than in healthy controls, mean values ranging from 13.6 +/- 2.7% (s.e.m.) to 19.5 +/- 3.7% in patients and from 27.2 +/- 4.1% to 33.6 +/- 5.3% in controls. Cytotoxicity of disease controls was not significantly different from that of healthy subjects. Cytotoxicity was reduced by monocyte depletion, was weakly and inversely related to disease activity, was relatively stable for up to 24 months and was not HLA restricted. Cell lysis was attributable to spontaneous cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity and antibody-complement-dependent cytotoxicity were not detected.

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