THE PRODUCTION OF INTERLEUKIN-2 BY PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS OF HEPATITIS B PATIENTS AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

The activity of IL-2 produced by activated PBMC in 25 hapatitis B patients including fulminant hepatitis (FH, 6 cases), acute hepatitis (AH, 4 cases), chronic active hepatitis (CAH, 6 cases) and chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH, 9 cases) as well as 11 normal controls was assayed by using splenoblasts as the responding cells. The results showed: (1) The IL-2 activity of all the 25 hepatitis patients were significantly lower than that of 11 normal controls and was lowest in FH patients (P<0.001); (2) The IL-2 activity was correlated with the SGPT activity dynamically in CPH patients (r=-0.4260, P<0.05); (3) The IL-2 activity of hepatitis B patients was related to the positive or negative state of anti-HBc-IgM (P<0. 05); (4) It was the function rather than the number of PBMC that paralleled the IL-2 activity (r<0.3, P>0.05).

THE PRODUCTION OF INTERLEUKIN-2 BY PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS OF HEPATITIS B PATIENTS AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

The activity of IL-2 produced by activated PBMC in 25 hapatitis B patients including fulminant hepatitis (FH, 6 cases), acute hepatitis (AH, 4 cases), chronic active hepatitis (CAH, 6 cases) and chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH, 9 cases) as well as 11 normal controls was assayed by using splenoblasts as the responding cells. The results showed: (1) The IL-2 activity of all the 25 hepatitis patients were significantly lower than that of 11 normal controls and was lowest in FH patients (P<0.001); (2) The IL-2 activity was correlated with the SGPT activity dynamically in CPH patients (r=-0.4260, P<0.05); (3) The IL-2 activity of hepatitis B patients was related to the positive or negative state of anti-HBc-IgM (P<0. 05); (4) It was the function rather than the number of PBMC that paralleled the IL-2 activity (r<0.3, P>0.05).