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. 1999 Dec;83(12):1386–1388. doi: 10.1136/bjo.83.12.1386

CD56+ T cells in the peripheral blood of uveitis patients

H Yato 1, Y Matsumoto 1
PMCID: PMC1722909  PMID: 10574819

Abstract

AIMS—Natural killer T (NKT) cells, T lymphocytes expressing both T cell and NK cell markers, are suggested to be involved in autoimmune diseases. To examine the relation between the pathogenesis of uveitis and CD56+ T cells, which are thought to be a type of human NKT cells, we investigated peripheral CD56+ T cells in uveitis patients.
METHODS—41 uveitis patients (Behçet's disease (BD), 14; sarcoidosis (SAR), eight; Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH), five; idiopathic uveitis (IU), nine; and others, five) and 19 healthy controls participated in this study. Cell surface antigens of lymphocytes were analysed by use of monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry.
RESULTS—The proportion of CD56+ T cells in patients with BD was higher than in controls and in patients with SAR, VKH, IU, and others.
CONCLUSION—Increased peripheral CD56+ T cells might be relevant to the pathogenesis of uveitis in BD, and increase of peripheral CD56+ T cells may be one of the laboratory findings to suggest that uveitis originates from BD.



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