The immune system status after the impact from local vibrations
Egorova, I.V.; Litovskaia, A.V.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 4: 13-17
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 9613085 Document Number: 497823
The article presents results of immunologic studies in 111 vibration disease sufferers with variable exposure, age, sex and severity of disease. The examinees were proved to have depressed cellular immunity--lower E-RFC count with decreased number of active E-RFC and levamisole--correctable modifications of T-cells; inhibited humoral immunity--lower levels of IgM, IgG, IgA; contradictory changes of neutrophils functions--depressed phagocytosis and metabolic activity with pronounced rosette formation; halted immune factors of saliva.