[The interrelationship of the thyroid and immune statuses of workers with long-term fluorine exposure].
Thyroid and immune statuses were studied in workers continuously exposed to fluorine. The examinees with euthyroid condition had immune disorders with an allergic tendency (increased number of B-lymphocytes, immunoglobulins A). In workers with subclinical hypothyrosis (tri-iodothyronine reduced in 51%), the immune alterations were more evident, T-lymphocytes count rose, but their functional activity declined, indicating impaired cooperation of immunocytes as a result of imperfect control under low concentrations of tri-iodothyronine.
Balabolkin
M I
MI
Mikhaĭlets
N D
ND
Lobovskaia
R N
RN
Chernousova
N V
NV
D000328:Adult; D000535:Aluminum; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005458:Fluoride Poisoning / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008669:Metallurgy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000276:immunology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000503:physiopathology
D000535:Aluminum