Phagocytosis of immune complexes by leukocytes in patients with schizophrenia
Vetlugina, T.P.; Ivanova, S.A.; Logvinovich, G.V.; Vasi'leva, O.A.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 89(5): 102-104
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 2781905 Document Number: 329511
Comparative investigation of the leukocytes' in vitro capabilities of attacking the immune complexes was performed in 20 schizophrenic patients and 20 healthy individuals. The patients' leukocytes were considerably less active against the immune complexes that those of healthy persons that was probably related to both primary defect in the phagocytic cells and their overload (block) by different biologically active factors. Levamisole in vitro stimulated these events.