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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-5
pubmed:abstractText
The capacity of four Mycobacterium tuberculosis recombinant antigens to elicit proliferation and cytokine production by human T cells was evaluated. Proliferative responses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to all antigens were greater in healthy tuberculin reactors than in pulmonary tuberculosis patients, and proliferative responses of pleural fluid cells were greater than those of PBMC from patients with tuberculous pleuritis. The proliferative responses to the four recombinant antigens were similar in all patient groups, and there was no selective unresponsiveness to any antigen in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. The 38-kDa antigen induced less interferon-gamma than did the 10-, 30-, and 65-kDa antigens, and all four antigens induced similar amounts of interleukin-10. These results suggest that none of the four recombinant antigens are immunodominant, and that the 10-, 30-, and 65-kDa antigens are similar in their capacity to induce a potentially protective Th1-like response.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0022-1899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
174
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
431-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Immune response to recombinant mycobacterial proteins in patients with tuberculosis infection and disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't