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H Wysocki

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Unsaturated vitamin B12 binding capacity and serum lysozyme activity during the marrow granulocytes reserve tests.

Unsaturated vitamin B12 binding capacity (UBBC) and serum lysozyme activity (LZM) were estimated durinng the endotoxin, prednisone and hydrocortisone marrow granulocyte reserve (MGR) pool tests. Our results showed, that no additional mechanism except the shift of MGR from marrow caused granulocytosis after typhoid vaccine administration. While the prednisone, when given orally diminished additionally the number of the physiologically destroyed neutrophils. The hydrocortisone, however, showed the results very similar to those obtained after typhoid vaccine adminstration. Thus the hydrocortisone test seems to be most useful. It gives as good information as typhoid vaccine test but does not show its side-effects.

Agranulocytosis↗

[Tissue migration of neutrophil granulocytes in the course of antiproliferative treatment in Hodgkin's disease].

The ability of neutrophil granulocytes to mobilization in sterile inflammatory focus was studied in patients with Hodgkin's disease during treatment. Plastic chambers filled with patient's serum were used for this purpose. The migration ability of granulocytes in the group of patients was reduced already before beginning of treatment. It decreased even more 3 days after beginning of cytostatic treatment but on the 7th day the number of cells passing into the inflammatory exudate increased to values observed in healthy subjects. The observed changes were not correlated with fluctuations in the granulocyte count in the peripheral blood observed on the same days. It is suggested that the evaluation of migration ability of granulocytes to the inflammatory focus may provide better information about the defensive mechanisms of the organism than determination of the count of these cells in the peripheral blood.

Antineoplastic Agents↗

[Effect of prednisone and typhoid vaccine on the size of systemic neutrophil granulocyte pool].

Changes of total granulocyte pool in the organism were evaluated after administration of prednisone or typhoid vaccine. For this purpose the unsaturated capacity of serum vitamin B12 binding was determined. After administration of prednisone the rise of granulocytes in peripheral blood was associated with a rise in the unsaturated capacity of vitamin B12 binding by the serum which was not observed after administration of typhoid vaccine. This observation confirmed the suggestions that corticosteroids not only mobilize the bone marrow reserve of granulocytes but prolong also their survival in the organism.

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Interleukin-8 is not involved in the increased chemotactic activity of peripheral blood plasma during acute myocardial infarction.

Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) are known to participate in the development of tissue injury during myocardial infarction due to both free oxygen radicals release, as well as to their involvement in the "no-reflow" phenomenon. We have previously shown that peripheral blood plasma (obtained from patients with acute myocardial infarction) has chemotactic activity for PMN and is able to induce PMN adherence as well as superoxide anion production. To investigate whether interleukin-8 (IL-8/NAP-1), a potent chemotactic factor for PMN, is involved in plasma-mediated PMN stimulation, we measured plasma levels of IL-8 in five patients with transmural myocardial infarction with highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using specific antibodies. Blood samples were taken immediately after patients' admission, within 15 and 30 min of treatment with intravenous nitrates, as well as after 1, 2, 3, and 7 days. All samples expressed IL-8 activity within the detection limit (0.4 ng/ml) as observed at the basal state. Thus, IL-8 may not be considered as responsible for the chemotactic activity in peripheral blood in patients with myocardial infarction.

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