In the peripheral blood of healthy adults the number of theophylline-resistant T-lymphocytes (T-res) is 51 +/- 4% and 1,161 +/- 326/microliter, respectively, and the number of theophyllins-sensitive 11 +/- 2% and 252 +/- 95/microliters. The membrane markers show a heterogeneous distribution. The quotient from T-res/T-sens is 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn children with a glomerulonephritis the immune laboratory parameters used by us showed deviations from the norm which are necessary to be pursued. This particularly concerns the differentiation of B- and T-cells, the determination of the subpopulations of the T-cells, furthermore also the control of the serum-IgM as well as the investigation of complement and C-factors 3 and 4, respectively. The laboratory methods mentioned deserve to be compared with and related to clinical, paraclinical and renal bioptic data of the GN-patients.
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