Immunobiology of primary intracranial tumors: Part 1: studies of the cellular and humoral general immune competence of brain-tumor patients

MS Mahaley, WH Brooks, TL Roszman… - Journal of …, 1977 - thejns.org
MS Mahaley, WH Brooks, TL Roszman, DD Bigner, L Dudka, S Richardson
Journal of neurosurgery, 1977thejns.org
✓ Cellular and humoral immune parameters were evaluated in a series of braintumor
patients, 42 with glioblastoma multiforme, 17 with other anaplastic gliomas, and 17 with
meningiomas. A degree of anergy was found, which seems in the group as a whole to be
proportional to the degree of anaplasia. In addition, serial bimonthly testing in individual
cases revealed further reduction in certain immune responses coincident with clinical
decline.
✓ Cellular and humoral immune parameters were evaluated in a series of braintumor patients, 42 with glioblastoma multiforme, 17 with other anaplastic gliomas, and 17 with meningiomas. A degree of anergy was found, which seems in the group as a whole to be proportional to the degree of anaplasia. In addition, serial bimonthly testing in individual cases revealed further reduction in certain immune responses coincident with clinical decline.
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