[Clinical and laboratory assessment of interactions between poly- and mononuclear phagocytes in inflammatory diseases of the skin].
Interactions between polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) and monocytes are changed in inflammatory diseases of the skin; these changes manifest by enhanced stimulation of PMNL migration under the effect of monocytes in psoriasis and by depression of this migration in eczema. In psoriasis HLA-DR-antigens and endogenic monocyte prostaglandins participate in this modulation of cooperative interactions between phagocytic cells, whereas in eczema PMNL superoxide anion takes part in this process. These data may be useful in the diagnosis of inflammatory diseases of the skin and disclose new aspects in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and eczema connected with phagocytic system cells.