[Immunologic characterization of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus with varying duration of disease].

The paper presents data on the cellular and humoral immunity in different periods of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (with the disease standing of 0.5 +/- 0.4 years, group A; 3 +/- 1.

[Phenotyping of blood and bone marrow lymphocytes in children with primary immunologic deficiency].

Subpopulational composition of peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes was studied in 17 children with different forms of immunodeficiency, combined with hematological shifts (agammaglobulinemia--6, mucocutaneous candidiasis--2, selective IgG-deficiency--2, hyper-IgM syndrome--3, cephalo-oculocutaneous telangiectasia (COCT)--2, general, variable immunodeficiency--2 patients; neutropenia was observed in all the patients, lymphopenia--in 13, anemia-in 6 patients. Surface markers were assayed by flow cytofluorometry with monoclonal antibodies OKT3, OKT4, OKT8, OKB7, produced by "Ortho diagnostics". Changes characteristic of certain forms of primary immunodeficiency have been revealed in the subpopulational composition of peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes: decreased helper potential in patients with general variable immunodeficiency, T-lymphocyte deficiency in patients with COCT increased number of phenotype T3 cells and decreased amount of B-cell in agammaglobulinemia patients.

[Cytometric method of determining the parameters of the interaction of synthetic immunostimulants with the lymphocytic surface].

The cytofluorimetric method was suggested for the determination of parameters of polymer adsorption on the cellular surface. Multiple equilibrium in the homogeneous cellular population with N independent binding sites and in the heterogeneous population of cells with the Poisson distribution of adsorption sites was analysed. A possibility was shown of cytofluorimetric drawing of the adsorption isotherm using mean fluorescence intensity of cells in the equilibrium suspension.