Circulating immune complexes and neutrophil function in low-birth-weight newborn infants in the early neonatal period
Muchaidze, I.A.; Dodeliia, L.F.; Khubaeva, I.V.; Dodeliia, N.I.; Bendukidze, N.G.; Kikvadze, M.V.
Pediatriia 10: 37-40
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-403X PMID: 2602065 Document Number: 332661
Peripheral blood neutrophil function and the content of circulating immune complexes in funic blood were examined in 35 premature neonates with low body weight, 27 neonates with grade I prematurity and in 24 normal full-term neonates (a control group) by days 1-2 and days 7-8 of life. The positive time-course of changes in the neutrophil capacity for completed phagocytosis and in the content of circulating immune complexes was disclosed in full-term neonates with low body weight at birth. The same parameters showed a negative time-course of changes in premature neonates.