Abstract
20 patients, aged 20 to 72 years (mean 36.5 years), 14 with recurrent (RAS) and 6 with recurrent cicatrizing (RCAS) aphthous stomatitis were studied. 3 patients (15%) had the HLA locus A11 antigen, whose frequency in the Finnish population is 8%. 5 patients (25%) had B12, which occurs in 15% of the normal population. Results of routine serological tests were normal. All had normal serum levels of IgG, IgM, IgA and complements C3 and C4. 4 patients, 2 with RAS and 2 with RCAS, had raised serum IgE. Precipitating antibodies against milk protein were detected in 2 patients and against gluten in 1. In 4 patients, tests for immediate allergy were positive. 5 patients had antibodies to double-stranded DNA. Delayed hypersensitivity reactions were normal, and the PHA stimulation of lymphocytes elicited normal T-cell responses in all patients except one with RCAS. In this patient, there was a striking parallelism between an increase in PHA-reactive lymphocytes and clinical improvement. The serum of this patient contained a binder for 125I-labelled PHA, a binder not consistently detected in the other patients with ROU. Lymphocyte dysfunction may play a rôle in ROU. Of the 16 biopsy specimens of aphthous tissue studied by direct immunoflu...Continue Reading
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