Differentiation Capacity of Cultured B Lymphocytes from Immunodeficient Patients
AUTOR(ES)
Wu, L. Y. F.
RESUMO
Peripheral blood lymphocytes from 27 healthy individuals and from 18 patients with a diverse spectrum of defects in humoral immunity were examined for their capacity to undergo terminal differentiation in vitro. Pokeweed mitogen induced cells from normal persons to synthesize and secrete IgM. IgG, and IgA as detected by Immunofluorescence and incorporation of [14C]amino acids, Lymphocytes from three boys with X-linked agammaglobulinemia were stimulated to proliferate, but did not synthesize immunoglobulin. Lymphocyte cultures from three of four patients having agammaglobulinemia with B lymphocytes produced different immunoglobulin classes in ratios similar to the in vivo distribution of classes of B lymphocytes, Lymphocytes from a dysgammaglobulinemic boy deficient in serum IgG and IgA, but who had normal numbers of IgM-, IgG-, and IgA-bearing B lymphocytes, could not be stimulated by pokeweed mitogen to make IgG and IgA. Synthesis and secretion of IgA, as well as IgM and IgG, was detected in cell cultures from each of 10 patients with isolated IgA deficiency. The results suggest that deficiencies in immunoglobulin synthesis may reflect either (a) failure to develop B lymphocytes, (b) arrested development of B lymphocytes due to intrinsic metabolic abnormalities, or (c) disturbance of factors extrinsic to the B lymphocyte which are essential for normal induction of plasma cell maturation.
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