title: [T and B components of the immune system in acute bronchopulmonary diseases in children with thymomegaly and without it].
abstract: The immune status was estimated comprehensively and indicators of the level I and II tests of T and B components of the immunity system were defined in 120 children with thymomegaly (group I), in 30 children with unenlarged thymus (group II), and in 40 practically healthy children with unestablished size of the thymus, with a favourable family and personal disease history, who had never fallen ill before the immunologic examination (group III). The children belonging to groups I and II were examined at the acute disease period, during convalescence and clinical wellbeing. It has been established that during the acute bronchopulmonary disease, the group I and II children manifested the same regularities of immune response to the action of an antigenic stimulus. However, at the period of the clinical wellbeing, the group II children showed a higher lymphocytosis, impairment of the ratio of the T lymphocyte subpopulations, an increase of the EAC--RFC count, and a decline of the level of serum thymic factor. It is assumed that in the group I children, the system of immunologic defence is of weak safety within the first 3 years of life.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Tiurin
authors.forename: V Ia
authors.initials: VIa
authors.lastname: Arion
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Pushko
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Kuz'menko
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Baidun
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Zhuravleva
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000917:Antibody Formation; D001402:B-Lymphocytes; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000276:immunology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007223:Infant; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000276:immunology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Pokazateli T- i B-zven'ev sistemy immuniteta pri ostrykh bronkho- legochnykh zabolevaniiakh u detei s timomegaliei i bez nee.