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. 1973 Apr;52(4):919–928. doi: 10.1172/JCI107257

B and T Lymphocytes in Primary Immunodeficiency Disease in Man

Kazimiera J Gajl-Peczalska 1,2, Byung H Park 1,2, W Douglas Biggar 1,2, Robert A Good 1,2
PMCID: PMC302340  PMID: 4571426

Abstract

B- and T-cell populations in 32 patients with different forms of primary immunodeficiency disease were studied. The B-cells in peripheral blood were investigated with respect to surface immunoglobulins by means of immunofluorescence. The T-cell function was studied utilizing quantitation of proliferative response to phytochemagglutinin (PHA)1 and delayed allergy to various antigens. In 10 patients lymph node lymphocytes were also evaluated 11 male children with infantile x-linked agammaglobulinemia were divided into two subgroups. One did not show immunoglobulin spots on peripheral blood lymphocytes at all, the other contained a very low percentage of IgM- and occasionally IgA bearing lymphocytes. Eight patients with common variable immunodeficiency had moderately decreased percentages of peripheral blood and lymph node lymphocytes with surface immunoglobulins, but these patients lacked immunoglobulin secreting cells. Four cases of isolated IgA deficiency had normal or high percentages, and two cases of ataxia-telangiectasia had high percentages of lymphocytes with IgA in so called receptor distribution in both peripheral blood and lymph nodes. In three patients with infantile combined immunodeficiency that had been corrected by marrow transplantation, the percentages of Ig-bearing lymphocytes increased to normal or high levels together with establishment of functional T-cell population and ultimate secretion of serum immunoglobulins. One case of Di George syndrome reconstituted by fetal thymus transplant showed gradual decrease of B lymphocytes in circulation parallel to restoration of T-cell population.

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