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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-11-21
pubmed:abstractText
Twenty-six patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and twenty-two with active chronic hepatitis (ACH) were examined for evidence of the sicca syndrome (keratoconjunctivitis sicca, xerostomia). Measurements of tear flow and total saliva flow showed that at least one sicca feature was present in twenty (77%) of the patients with PBC and ten (45%) of those with ACH. Examination of cellular immune responses to a protein fraction of normal human saliva using the leucocyte migration test showed sensitization to the saliva protein in twenty-three of the thirty cases with sicca syndrome but in only two of the eighteen in whom sicca features were not detected. Antisera raised in guinea-pigs against the saliva protein gave specific immunofluorescent staining of bile duct epithelial cells in sections of normal human liver. These findings suggest that damage to structures in the liver may lead to sensitization to various self-antigens which cross-react with other tissues in which a similar disease process may be consequently be initiated.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0009-9104
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
389-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Cellular immune responses to salivary antigens in autoimmune liver disease with sicca syndrome.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article