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Query: UMLS:C0021051 (immunodeficiency)
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Ninety-six institutionalized elderly (greater than 70 years old) (mean age: 82 +/- 7 years) subjects, negative for tetanus toxoid antibodies were primed with tetanus toxoid vaccination and dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB). Correlations were studied between some immunological parameters, nutritional parameters prior to immunization and the immune response intensity after it. Levels of tetanus toxoid specific IgG (ELISA assay) were positively correlated with monocyte phagocytosis, DNCB response and prealbumin levels, and negatively correlated with total IgG, monocyte immune degradation and tetanus toxoid lymphocyte stimulation. No correlation was observed with IgA, IgM, PHA stimulation. Tetanus toxoid lymphocyte stimulation correlated positively with response to DNCB, and negatively with tetanus toxoid IgG as well as total IgG. DNCB response correlated with prealbumin, tetanus toxoid IgG and tetanus toxoid lymphocyte stimulation. Therefore, it appears that malnutrition, as measured by prealbumin level, is one of the main factors contributing to the inconstant senile immunodeficiency. Monocyte antigenic degradation function unaltered with age can impair immune response while conserved or increased phagocytosis enhances immune response in the elderly. High total IgG levels were linked with low specific responses to priming antigens. High specific antibody levels also correlated negatively with cellular specific response. It is assumed that regulatory IgG antibody accumulation, likely anti-idiotypic antibodies, play an important role in senile immunological depletion.
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PMID:Respective roles of immune and nutritional factors in the priming of the immune response in the elderly. 387 21

Tetanus toxoid was assessed as a skin test antigen for the measurement of cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) by comparing the responses to intradermal injections of aqueous tetanus toxoid and an extract of Candida albicans in 50 randomly selected healthy adults and 10 adults with immunodeficiency. Of 42 healthy subjects previously immunised with tetanus toxoid, 33 (79%) reacted to tetanus toxoid and 33 (79%) reacted to Candida albicans. Of eight non-immunised subjects, none reacted to tetanus toxoid although five reacted to Candida albicans. Ten immunodeficient adults previously shown to be anergic to a standard panel of five skin test antigens including Candida albicans, and who had received primary immunisation and booster doses of tetanus toxoid, were anergic on current testing with tetanus toxoid and Candida albicans. Tetanus toxoid in previously immunised subjects has certain advantages as a "recall" DTH test antigen over the standard skin test antigens candidin, mumps, trichophyton, tuberculin and streptokinase-streptodornase used to diagnose cell-mediated immuno-deficiency. It is a sensitive measurement of DTH, it recalls a defined immunological event, it has a low incidence of side effects, and it produces a slight but beneficial boosting of serum antibody to tetanus toxoid.
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PMID:Use of tetanus toxoid for testing cell-mediated immunity. 675 48

Determination of antigen-specific cytokine responses of T lymphocytes after vaccination is made difficult by the low frequency of responder cells. In order to detect these responses, the profile of intracellular cytokines was analyzed using flow cytometry after antigenic expansion. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated with antigens for 5 days, further expanded with interleukin (IL)-2, and then restimulated on day 10. Cytokine production was detected by intracellular staining with monoclonal antibodies after saponin-based permeabilization. Influenza expansion resulted in specific interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production of 6%-20%, with less IL-4 production (0%-2%). Tetanus toxoid resulted in even greater production. IL-4 and IFN-gamma were produced mainly by memory cells of the CD45RO+ phenotype. IFN-gamma production was contributed by both CD4 and CD8 populations. These methods were then applied to a clinical trial of a candidate human immunodeficiency virus type 1 vaccine. Antigen-specific increases in IFN-gamma were measured, which corresponded to antibody production, lymphoproliferation, and skin testing.
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PMID:Detection of intracellular antigen-specific cytokines in human T cell populations. 1019 Dec 13

The human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) transactivator Tat occurs extracellularly and exerts immunosuppressive effects. Interestingly, Tat inhibits dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DP IV) activity of the T cell activation marker CD26. The short N-terminal nonapeptide Tat(1-9), MDPVDPNIE, also inhibits DP IV activity and suppresses DNA synthesis of tetanus toxoid-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). Here, we present the influence of amino acid exchanges in the first three positions of Tat(1-9). For instance, the replacement of D2 of Tat(1-9) by G or K generated peptides, which inhibit DP IV-catalyzed IL-2(1-12) cleavage nearly threefold stronger. Similar effects were observed on the suppression of DNA synthesis of Tetanus toxoid-stimulated PBMC. This correlation suggests that Tat(1-9)-deduced peptides mediate antiproliferative effects at least in part via specific DP IV interactions and supports the hypothesis that CD26 plays a key role in the regulation of lymphocyte growth.
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PMID:Effects of nonapeptides derived from the N-terminal structure of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) Tat on suppression of CD26-dependent T cell growth. 1084 43