In an attempt to elucidate the relationship of PAS-positive material of circulating
Iymphocytes to the numbers of circulating lymphocytes in various diseases, the author
investigated changes in periodic acid-Schiff reaction and absolute count of the
circulating lymphocytes in 79 cases of the patients with various diseases and 18 healthy
persons.
The results thus obtained were summarized as follows:
In the patients with Pulmonary tuberculosis, typhoid fever, nephritis, pleurisy,
meningitis, CVA, essential hypertension, liver cirrhosis, hepatoina, drug intoxication,
diabetes mellitus, and peptic ulcer, the PAS-positive material in the cicrulating
lymphocytes significantly increased. This increase in the PAS-positive material in the
circulating lymphocytes was not related to the number of the circulating lymphocytes.
It was suggested that the PAS positive material of circulating lymphocytes may be
influenced by some substance, which would be related to any immunological reaction
and produce in various diseases.
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