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M Fricke

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[Osteoporosis -- due to reduced blood circulation of bone (author's transl)].

According to a theory of the authors both senile osteoporosis and pathologic osteoporoses (rheumatic, in diabetes, bronchial asthma, pulmonary emphysema, portal hypertension and Cushing's disease) are due to disturbances of the circulation of the blood in bone. Every type of stasis in the sinusoids, be it due to reduced arterial supply or venous stasis or to a reduction of extravascular fluid-pressure will provoke an increase in osteoclastic activity and thus osteoporosis.

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The effect of serum and allogeneic antiglobulin preparations on the mitogenic reactivity of peripheral blood lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

In vitro transofrmation of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (Con A) was found to be decreased in 17 RA patients. The addition of 50 microliter RA serum or serum from normal controls exhibited an inhibitory effect on the mitogenic reactivity to Con A but not to PHA of both normal and RA patient's PBL. Allogeneic antiglobulin preparations (a-Ig) stimulated the spontaneous in vitro DNA synthesis of PBL from normal control and, to a smaller degree, also from RA patients. The simultaneous addition of a-Ig's and mitogens to PBL of normal controls and RA patients did not exhibit a significant effect on the mitogenic reactivity.

Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic↗

[(Fab')2-antiglobulins in serum and synovial fluid in patients with chronic polyarthritis].

In addition to the well-known rheumatoid factors or antiglobulins belonging to different immunoglobulin classes, a new type of antiglobulin has been found in serum and synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 15/20 sera and 6/6 synovial fluids contained serologically active material with a molecular weight of approximately 95.000 Daltons. Using chromatographic and affinity chromatographic methods as well as specific precipitation techniques, the (Fab')2 character of these antiglobulins could be ascertained. These antiglobulins may arise through enzymatic degradation of IgG or monomeric IgM antiglobulins, or may be the product of partial intracellular degradation of phagocytosed immune complexes with subsequent extrusion of such material. An in vitro blocking effect of (Fab')2 type antiglobulins on SCMC or ADCC reactions was not found.

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