title: An analysis of in vitro T cell responsiveness in nontuberculous mycobacterial infection.
abstract: In vitro cell-mediated immunity was examined in patients infected with nontuberculous mycobacteria, Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex in Japan. Peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients, as compared with those of tuberculous patients or tuberculin-positive healthy donors, showed depressed in vitro blastogenic responses to purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD), not only to PPDs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis but also to PPD-B and PPD-Y of M intracellulare and M kansasii, respectively. Nonspecific lymphocyte blastogenic responses to concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and pokeweed mitogen were normal. Analysis of defective in vitro PPD-induced lymphocyte blastogenic responses in these patients revealed that PPD-induced interleukin 2 (IL-2) production was impaired whereas PPD-induced IL-2 responsiveness was normally developed after PPD stimulation. Therefore, addition of exogenous recombinant human IL 2 substantially recovered the in vitro depressed PPD-induced blastogenic responses in these patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial infection.
authors.affiliation: Osaka Prefectural Habikino Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tsuyuguchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shiratsuchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000494:pharmacology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000276:immunology*; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2 / Q000378:metabolism; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D014373:Tuberculin / Q000494:pharmacology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2; D014373:Tuberculin