Alteration of early T lymphocyte count in patients with herpes genitalis

Abstract

Peripheral blood samples from 52 women, including 16 with herpes genitalis and 36 healthy persons, were studied to enumerate subpopulations of lymphocytes. It was found that the mean percentage of 'active' T lymphocytes was significantly less in the patients with herpes genitalis than in the controls.

Lymphokine Production in T‐Lymphocyte Subsets Defined by Active E‐Rosette Formation

“…The active rosette test has been considered a rosette-enriched T cells produced LIF in sensitive indicator of T-cell function in man, response to both polyclonal activation and and changes in the percentages and absolute antigenic stimulation, whereas active rosettenumbers of active rosette-forming cells in depleted cells failed to produce LIF in response various disease states have been well documented to either stimulus. [2,7,8,10,11,18]. We reported in an earlier study that T cells enriched for active rosettes are capable of recognizing and killing allo-MATERIALS AND METHODS geneic lymphocytes and also have an immunoregulatory effect on the generation of antibody isolation of peripheral blood lymphocytes and responses by B cells [15].…”