Accession Number:
ADA000663
Title:
The Mechanism of Specific Desensitization by Microbe Allergens. Report I. Indices of Nonspecific Immunity in Bronchial Asthma and Change Under the Effect of Desensitization by Microbe Allergens
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1974-10-24
Pagination or Media Count:
14.0
Abstract:
The authors studied certain indices of immunological reactivity in patients with infectious bronchial asthma ranging in age from 16 to 60 with duration of disease from 4 months to 20 years and more. The following conclusions were drawn In bronchial asthma patients, a certain reduction in the nonspecific resistance of the organisms was manifested by a reduction in blood serum complement titer, phagocytic activity of leukocytes and phagocytic index desensitization with microbe antigens led to a certain increase in the phagocytosis indicators and complement activity of the blood and a reduction in the lysozyme titer the nature of the immunologic process, after introduction of small doses of microbe antigens over a prolonged period of time, is analogous to that found in process of immunization.