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Impairment in proliferation, lymphokine production and frequency distribution of mitogen-responsive and interleukin-2-producing cells in Hodgkin's disease

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In this paper, we have correlated the ability of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from Hodgkin's Disease patients to proliferate in response to a mitogen, phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), with production of lymphokines interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interferon γ (IFNγ), accumulating in the activated lymphocyte culture supernatants. We have also studied the frequency distribution of PHA-responsive and IL-2-producing T cells from PBL using limiting-dilution analysis. We observed that the levels of IL-2 and IFNγ in the supernatants of activated lymphocytes from patients with Hodgkin's disease were significantly reduced compared to those of healthy donors. Substage-B patients showed marked reduction in the ability to produce IFNγ. Levels of IL-2 and IFNγ in the culture supernatants of PBL from Hodgkin's disease patients correlated positively with proliferative responses, when analysed by linear regressison (r = 0.79 andr = 0.60 respectively). However, production of the two lymphokines by activated lymphocytes from the same patients did not correlate (r = +0.04). Further, the frequencies of PHA-responsive cells and IL-2-producing cells in the PBL of patients with Hodgkin's disease (ranges 1/111–1/554 and 1/3009–1/6709 respectively) were also less than those of the healthy donors (ranges 1/80–1/181 and 1/761–1/1828 respectively). Proliferation, IL-2 production in bulk cultures and frequencies of PHA-responsive and IL-2-producing cells correlated well in individual healthy donors. Whereas, one patient (BC 11 214) with a frequency of PHA-responsive cells within normal limits had a very low frequency of IL-2-producing cells. Taken together, the results indicate abnormalities in cytokine production and frequency distribution of cells required for amplification of immune response in patients with Hodgkin's disease.

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    Rajendra N. Damle & Sudha G. Gangal

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Damle, R.N., Advani, S.H. & Gangal, S.G. Impairment in proliferation, lymphokine production and frequency distribution of mitogen-responsive and interleukin-2-producing cells in Hodgkin's disease. Cancer Immunol Immunother 34, 205–210 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01742314

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