Cellular and humoral autoimmune responses against human eye muscle membrane antigen in Graves' disease |
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Authors: | I Molnár K Németi A Bokk V Stenszky C Balázs N R Farid |
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Institution: | 3rd Department of Medicine, Kenezy's Hospital, Debrecen, Hungary. |
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Abstract: | 75 patients with Graves' disease (54 with ophthalmopathy) were investigated using the tests of leucocyte adherence inhibition and immune adsorption with 125I-labelled Staphylococcus Protein A, against human eye muscle "crude" membrane antigen. The results of positive leucocyte adherence inhibition (10 out of 26 vs. 1 out of 28, P less than 0.05) and anti-human eye muscle membrane antibody index (mean +/- S.D.) (1.89 +/- 1.20 vs. 0.84 +/- 0.38, P less than 0.001) showed a correlation with the patients with clinically active eye disease and the HLA-B8 antigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (P less than 0.01). Positive leucocyte adherence inhibition was observed in 9 out of 21 cases of Graves' disease without ophthalmopathy, but its prognostic relevance has to be confirmed in the development of ophthalmopathy. |
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