PHA dose dependent defect in lymphocyte stimulation and E-rosette-forming cells in untreated Hodgkin's disease
Land, J.M.; Litwin, J.; Bigel, P.; Oberling, F.; Mayer, S.
Acta Haematologica Polonica 8(2): 131-134
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5814 PMID: 329629 Document Number: 114018
14 untreated patients with Hodgkin's disease were tested for lymphocte reactivity in vitro to optimal and suboptimal doses of PHA. A PHA dose-dependent defect in lymphocyte stimulation was demonstrated in patients when compared with a group of normal individuals. No correlation between the in vitro defect and decreased absolute number of E-rosette-forming cells (T-lymphocytes) in peripheral blood was found.