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Immune responsiveness to retinal S-antigen and opsin in serpiginous choroiditis and other retinal diseases

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The immune responsiveness to bovine retinal S-antigen and opsin has been investigated in some retinal disorders by means of in vitro lymphocyte proliferation, leukocyte migration inhibition and enzyme linked immune sorbent assays (ELISA). Sensitisation to S-antigen was observed in serpiginous choroiditis, but not in acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) or retinitis pigmentosa. No significant immune responsiveness was detected to opsin in any of the three diseases. Elevated antibody titers to S-antigen were observed in some individual patients and healthy subjects. However, none of the patient groups exhibited an elevated antibody titer as compared to the control group.

Although serpiginous choroiditis and APMPPE share some prominent clinical characteristics, the sensitisation in the former disease may perhaps be attributed to more severe and prolonged damage of the photoreceptor cells and blood-retina barrier.

A combination of previous and present results suggests that in immunological investigations of retinitis pigmentosa patients it is more effective to use human than bovine S-antigen as test antigen because a species specific epitope seems to be involved.

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    R. M. Broekhuyse, M. Van Herck, A. J. L. G. Pinckers, H. J. Winkens, A. H. M. Van Vugt, S. Ryckaert & A. F. Deutman

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Broekhuyse, R.M., Van Herck, M., Pinckers, A.J.L.G. et al. Immune responsiveness to retinal S-antigen and opsin in serpiginous choroiditis and other retinal diseases. Doc Ophthalmol 69, 83–93 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154420

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