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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-6-27
pubmed:abstractText
Of 66 patients (31 female and 35 male) with demyelinating inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy (DIP), 12% (8/66) had a chronic relapsing and/or progressive course (CR-DIP) and 88% (58/66) had an acute monophasic illness (acute Guillain-Barré syndrome or GBS). Ten (15%) of the 66 had one or more associated putative autoimmune diseases; of these ten, five had CR-DIP and five had GBS. Cell-mediated immune responsiveness (CMI) of 30 cases with DIP was tested in vitro by lymphocyte transformation. Peripheral nervous system neuritogenic protein (NP) and central nervous system encephalitogenic myelin basic protein were the challenge antigens. Eighteen (60%) of the 30 patients had CMI to NP of human peripheral nervous system origin when a stimulation index (SI) of 2 or more was evaluated as positive; eight 27% (1) had CMI to NP when a positive SI was 3 or more. Of the 44 control patients with other neuropathies, only two (4.6%) demonstrated CMI to NP (SI, greater than or equal to 2). The in vitro response of patients with DIP to myelin basic protein (7/30) was not significantly different from that of the control population (16/44). The high incidence of DIP associated with autoimmune diseases and the CMI to NP in this group suggest that DIP may be an autoimmune disease with NP as one possible major antigen.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0003-9942
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
43
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
604-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Autoimmune Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Central Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Child, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Demyelinating Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Female, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Immunity, Cellular, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Male, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Myelin Basic Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Peripheral Nerves, pubmed-meshheading:2424413-Polyradiculoneuropathy
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute and chronic demyelinating inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy. Association with autoimmune diseases and lymphocyte response to human neuritogenic protein.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports