Production of interferons and change of the lymphocyte subpopulation phenotype in peripheral blood at cervical papillomavirus infection.

Abstract

IFN-gamma and IFN-alpha production in vitro by peripheral blood cells activated by phytohemagglutinin or the Newcastle disease virus was impaired in patients with a benign process, cervical intraepithelial neoplasm and cancer in situ associated with human papillomavirus infection. In case of IFN-gamma and IFN-alpha production impairment following cervical papillomavirus infection, the increased severity of disease was accompanied by remarkable IFN system suppression. The lower synthesis of both IFN correlated with changes of some lymphocyte-subpopulation phenotype in peripheral blood. Lower CD4+ and CD3+ DR+ T cell concentrations were observed in papillomavirus-infected patients with impaired IFN production; impaired IFN-gamma production was accompanied by lower CD4/CD8 index.

• Authors: L Lazarenko, M Spivak, V Lakatosh, L Kryvokhatska, O Mikhailenko, A Rudenko, L Tkáciková, I Mikula
• Journal: Folia microbiologica (Folia Microbiol (Praha)) Vol. 47 Issue 6 Pg. 747-52 ( 2002) ISSN: 0015-5632 [Print] United States
• PMID: 12630331 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Interferon-alpha
• Phytohemagglutinins
• phytohemagglutinin-P
• Interferon-gamma

Topics

• Adult
• Carcinoma in Situ (immunology, virology)
• Female
• Humans
• Interferon-alpha (biosynthesis, blood, immunology)
• Interferon-gamma (biosynthesis, blood, immunology)
• Lymphocyte Subsets (immunology)
• Newcastle disease virus (immunology)
• Papillomaviridae
• Papillomavirus Infections (blood, immunology, virology)
• Phytohemagglutinins (immunology)
• Uterine Cervical Neoplasms (immunology, virology)
• Uterine Cervical Dysplasia (immunology, virology)