PMID: 6965492Jan 1, 1980Paper

Decreased autologous rosette-forming T lymphocytes in alcoholic cirrhosis: absence of correlation with other T cell markers and with delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity

International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology
J M LangS Mayer

Abstract

Autologous rosette-forming T lymphocytes were enumerated in periphal blood of patients with established alcoholic cirrhosis and compared with T lymphocytes forming rosettes with sheep red blood cells (total and 'active' rosette-forming cells; RFC). Decreased autologous RFC was the most frequent T lymphocyte abnormality observed in 43 patients and was shown to occur even in patients with normal total and 'active' RFC. No correlation was found between autologous RFC and total or 'active' RFC. Skin anergy to 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene was noted in 44% of the patients tested. Autologous RFC did not correlate with delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity to 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene.

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Dec 1, 1989·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·A S WaliaE W Lamon
May 1, 1985·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·R R WatsonC Eskelson
Mar 1, 1990·Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology·M P NairS A Schwartz

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