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Takebayashi A, Kimura F, Kishi Y, Ishida M, Takahashi A, Yamanaka A, Takahashi K, Suginami H, Murakami T. The association between endometriosis and chronic endometritis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88354. [PMID: 24558386 PMCID: PMC3928198 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 01/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Objective To evaluate the association between endometriosis and chronic endometritis. Methods Endometrial specimens were obtained from 71 patients, 34 with endometriosis (endometriosis group) and 37 without endometriosis (non-endometriosis group), who underwent hysterectomy, and the specimens were immunostained for the plasmacyte marker CD138. The rate of chronic endometritis was compared between the endometriosis group and the non-endometriosis group. Furthermore, the 71 patients were also divided into two groups, 28 with chronic endometritis (chronic endometritis group) and 43 without chronic endometritis (non-chronic endometritis group). Logistic regression analysis was performed with variables including age, body mass index (BMI), gravidity and parity, and diagnoses of leiomyoma, adenomyosis, and endometriosis on pathology to examine the independent effect of each variable on chronic endometritis. Patients suffering from cervical invasive carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, and endometrial polyps or treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, progestins, or oral contraceptives before surgery were excluded. Results Chronic endometritis was identified in 52.94% of the endometriosis group and 27.02% of the non-endometriosis group (p<0.05). Logistic regression analysis revealed that endometriosis was associated with chronic endometritis. Conclusions This result suggests a strong association between endometriosis and chronic endometritis.
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- Akie Takebayashi
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Takanohara Central Hospital, Nara-shi, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Community Perinatal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Takanohara Central Hospital, Nara-shi, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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Matysiak-Budnik T, Moura IC, Arcos-Fajardo M, Lebreton C, Ménard S, Candalh C, Ben-Khalifa K, Dugave C, Tamouza H, van Niel G, Bouhnik Y, Lamarque D, Chaussade S, Malamut G, Cellier C, Cerf-Bensussan N, Monteiro RC, Heyman M. Secretory IgA mediates retrotranscytosis of intact gliadin peptides via the transferrin receptor in celiac disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 205:143-54. [PMID: 18166587 PMCID: PMC2234361 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20071204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Celiac disease (CD) is an enteropathy resulting from an abnormal immune response to gluten-derived peptides in genetically susceptible individuals. This immune response is initiated by intestinal transport of intact peptide 31-49 (p31-49) and 33-mer gliadin peptides through an unknown mechanism. We show that the transferrin receptor CD71 is responsible for apical to basal retrotranscytosis of gliadin peptides, a process during which p31-49 and 33-mer peptides are protected from degradation. In patients with active CD, CD71 is overexpressed in the intestinal epithelium and colocalizes with immunoglobulin (Ig) A. Intestinal transport of intact p31-49 and 33-mer peptides was blocked by polymeric and secretory IgA (SIgA) and by soluble CD71 receptors, pointing to a role of SIgA–gliadin complexes in this abnormal intestinal transport. This retrotranscytosis of SIgA–gliadin complexes may promote the entry of harmful gliadin peptides into the intestinal mucosa, thereby triggering an immune response and perpetuating intestinal inflammation. Our findings strongly implicate CD71 in the pathogenesis of CD.
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- Tamara Matysiak-Budnik
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U793, Paris 75730, Cedex 15, France
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De Re V, Simula MP, Caggiari L, Orzes N, Spina M, Da ponte A, De Appollonia L, Dolcetti R, Canzonieri V, Cannizzaro R. Proteins specifically hyperexpressed in a coeliac disease patient with aberrant T cells. Clin Exp Immunol 2007; 148:402-9. [PMID: 17335557 PMCID: PMC1941938 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2007.03348.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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An aberrant T cell population is the basis for diagnosis of refractory coeliac disease and determines the risk of enteropathy-associated T cell lymphoma. This disease is serious with a poor survival. Pathogenetic mechanisms sustaining aberrant T cell proliferation remain unknown. Recently, alemtuzumab has been proposed as a promising new approach to treat these patients. Only few single cases have been tested at present; nevertheless, in all the cases a clinical improvement was observed. However, whether intraepithelial lymphocytes have been targeted effectively by alemtuzumab is still debated. This study reports, using two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D DIGE), hyperexpressed proteins associated specifically with aberrant T cells found in a patient with coeliac disease by comparison of the protein expression of this sample with that of patients with coeliac disease and polyclonal T cells or with control subjects. The data demonstrated a significantly higher expression of IgM, apolipoprotein C-III and Charcot-Leyden crystal proteins in a duodenal biopsy specimen of the patient with clonal T cells compared with that of other patients. These preliminary results allow hypothesizing different clinical effects of alemtuzumab in patients with coeliac disease and aberrant T cell proliferation, because as well as the probable effect on T cells, alemtuzumab could exert its effect by acting on inflammatory associated CD52(+) IgM(+) B cells and eosinophil cells, known to produce IgM and Charcot-Leyden crystal proteins, that we demonstrated to be altered in this patient. The results also emphasize the possible association of apolipoprotein with aberrant T cell proliferation.
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- V De Re
- Farmacologia Sperimentale e clinica, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (PN), Italy.
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German AJ, Hall EJ, Day MJ. Relative deficiency in IgA production by duodenal explants from German shepherd dogs with small intestinal disease. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2000; 76:25-43. [PMID: 10973684 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2427(00)00191-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Matched samples of serum, saliva and tears were collected from four groups of dogs; two of the groups were German shepherd dogs (GSDs) either with (Group 1) or without (Group 4) a variety of small intestinal disorders; the remaining two groups were dogs of other breeds, again with (Group 2) or without (Group 3) small intestinal disease. Capture ELISAs were used to measure IgG, IgM, IgA and albumin concentrations within these samples; intestinal humoral immune status of clinical cases was assessed by quantifying immunoglobulin production from duodenal explant cultures.There were no significant differences in IgG, IgM or IgA concentrations in serum, saliva or tears between the different groups of dog. Moreover, no significant differences were noted between groups for IgG, IgM and IgA salivary and tear secretory indices. IgA production by 24-h explant cultures was significantly lower in GSDs compared with non-GSDs with small intestinal disease (groups 1 and 2, respectively), but the numbers of lamina propria IgA(+) plasma cells in duodenal biopsies were not different between groups. These results suggest that there may be a relative deficiency in local IgA secretion in GSDs with small intestinal enteropathies, which is not reflected in either serum IgA concentrations, or in secretion at unaffected mucosal sites. It remains to be determined whether such a deficiency is a breed-related primary defect, or whether it arises secondary to the pathological processes within the intestinal mucosa.
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- A J German
- Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford House, Bristol, BS40 5DU, UK.
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Riordan SM, McIver CJ, Wakefield D, Duncombe VM, Bolin TD, Thomas MC. Luminal immunity in small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth and old age. Scand J Gastroenterol 1996; 31:1103-9. [PMID: 8938904 DOI: 10.3109/00365529609036894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The independent influences of small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth and old age on mucosal immunoglobulin production and secretion have not been assessed. This is an important issue, since luminal IgA deficiency may exacerbate small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth, the prevalence of which is high in selected elderly populations. METHODS Proximal small-intestinal aspirates were obtained from 33 subjects for bacteriologic analysis and measurement of total IgA, IgM, total IgG. IgG subclass, and IgD concentrations. IgA subclasses were measured in 24 unselected subjects. Serum immunoglobulin and salivary IgA concentrations were measured in all subjects. RESULTS IgA2 and IgG3 were predominant IgA and IgG subclasses in proximal small-intestinal luminal secretions. Luminal concentrations of IgA2 and IgM, but not IgG3 or any other IgG subclass, were significantly increased in small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which was present in 19 of 33 (57.6%) subjects. Old age did not influence these levels. Luminal immunoglobulin concentrations did not correlate significantly with either serum or salivary values. IgD was not measureable in proximal small-intestinal secretions. CONCLUSIONS Increased luminal concentrations of the secretory immunoglobulins, IgA2 and IgM, occur in small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Local investigation is mandatory when assessing the mucosal immunopathology of this disorder. Luminal IgG3 is unlikely to be predominantly derived from serum. Old age does not independently influence luminal immunity.
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- S M Riordan
- Dept. of Gastroenterology, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Crabtree JE, Shallcross TM, Wyatt JI, Taylor JD, Heatley RV, Rathbone BJ, Losowsky MS. Mucosal humoral immune response to Helicobacter pylori in patients with duodenitis. Dig Dis Sci 1991; 36:1266-73. [PMID: 1893811 DOI: 10.1007/bf01307520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The humoral immune response to Helicobacter pylori infection in the duodenum has been investigated by short-term in vitro culture, ELISA, and immunoblotting techniques. H. pylori IgA secretion by duodenal bulb biopsies was significantly increased (P less than 0.001) in patients with duodenitis. The IgA response to H. pylori in patients with duodenitis was restricted to the first part of the duodenum; second part duodenal biopsies secreting significantly (P less than 0.001) less IgA during culture in vitro. H. pylori IgG antibody secretion by cultured biopsies was also significantly increased (P less than 0.01) in patients with duodenitis and those with gastric H. pylori infection but without duodenitis. Immunoblotting of duodenal bulb culture supernatants showed positive recognition by the mucosal IgA response of H. pylori antigens in the region of 120, 90, 61, and 31-26 kDa in patients with duodenitis. Serologically, such patients showed little evidence of IgA H. pylori antibodies by immunoblotting. These results demonstrate that the inflammatory response in the duodenal mucosa of patients with duodenitis represents a specific highly localized humoral response to H. pylori.
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- J E Crabtree
- Departments of Medicine, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK
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Mantzaris GJ, Rosenberg WM, Jewell DP. The immunology of coeliac disease. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1990; 12:219-29. [PMID: 2205941 DOI: 10.1007/bf00197507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- G J Mantzaris
- Gastroenterology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
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Crabtree JE, Heatley RV, Losowsky ML. Immunoglobulin secretion by isolated intestinal lymphocytes: spontaneous production and T-cell regulation in normal small intestine and in patients with coeliac disease. Gut 1989; 30:347-54. [PMID: 2565279 PMCID: PMC1378457 DOI: 10.1136/gut.30.3.347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The in vitro secretion of immunoglobulins by small intestinal lymphocytes isolated from 47 patients with normal histology and 23 patients with treated and untreated coeliac disease was examined using an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. In control patients, duodenal lymphocytes spontaneously secreted higher levels of IgM than jejunal lymphocytes (p less than 0.05). Significantly higher levels of both IgA (p less than 0.05) and IgM (p less than 0.001) were secreted by jejunal lymphocytes of 10 patients with untreated coeliac disease than cells isolated from normal jejunal tissue. IgM and IgA secretion by duodenal lymphocytes isolated from control patients was increased in a dose dependent manner by coculture with autologous peripheral blood T lymphocytes. This effect was not observed with jejunal lymphocytes of control or treated coeliac patients. Peripheral T-cells of untreated coeliac patients, however, showed significant helper effects (p less than 0.05) for IgM and IgA secretion by autologous jejunal lymphocytes. The results suggest that jejunal lymphocytes of patients with untreated coeliac disease show major differences in their capacity to synthesise and secrete immunoglobulins in vitro and the enhanced secretion might result from changes in T-cell immunoregulatory function.
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- J E Crabtree
- Department of Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
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Lycke N, Kilander A, Nilsson LA, Tarkowski A, Werner N. Production of antibodies to gliadin in intestinal mucosa of patients with coeliac disease: a study at the single cell level. Gut 1989; 30:72-7. [PMID: 2920930 PMCID: PMC1378234 DOI: 10.1136/gut.30.1.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Lymphocytes obtained after enzymatic digestion of intestinal biopsies from patients with coeliac disease were examined for the presence of gliadin specific antibody secreting cells by means of the ELISPOT technique. This technique permits enumeration of gliadin antibody secreting immunocytes, differentiated with regard to immunoglobulin class. Patients with coeliac disease were found to have high (834/10(6) cells) numbers of antigliadin spot forming cells (SFC) in gut mucosa. IgG and IgM antigliadin antibody secreting cells were infrequently shown whereas IgA antigliadin SFC predominated in all patients tested (average 68% of total SFC). Ten control patients were investigated in parallel with the coeliac patients and showed only low numbers of gliadin antibody secreting cells in gut mucosa (49/10(6) isolated cells). Antigliadin antibody secretion by peripheral blood mononuclear cells was shown in only two of six coeliac patients tested and in none of the control patients. The findings suggest that the intestinal mucosa is a major site for antigliadin antibody production and that IgA is the dominating Ig-class of these antibodies. The high sensitivity and accuracy of the ELISPOT technique may provide a useful instrument for future studies of antibody production and regulation of the gut immune response to gluten and other alimentary antigens in coeliac and other intestinal diseases.
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- N Lycke
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden
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Wood GM, Howdle PD, Trejdosiewicz LK, Losowsky MS. Jejunal plasma cells and in vitro immunoglobulin production in adult coeliac disease. Clin Exp Immunol 1987; 69:123-32. [PMID: 3652527 PMCID: PMC1542244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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IgA, IgE, IgG and IgM plasma cells in small bowel mucosal biopsies from 15 controls, 16 untreated and 14 treated coeliac patients and five patients with selective serum IgA deficiency (four of whom also had coeliac disease) were quantified using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique. The IgA, IgG and IgM plasma cell counts were significantly increased in the untreated coeliac patients. The cell counts were intermediate in the treated coeliac group. These changes were in parallel to production in vitro of IgA and sIgA, IgG, and IgM by cultured mucosal biopsies from the same patients. The IgA deficient patients had very few mucosal IgA cells but elevated IgG and IgM plasma cell numbers; again these changes were reflected in the production in vitro of immunoglobulins. IgE plasma cell counts were very low in all patients and there were no differences between patient groups. The changes in cell counts and mucosal immunoglobulin production were not reflected in serum IgA, IgM and IgG concentrations but serum secretory IgA was significantly elevated in the untreated coeliac patients compared with controls, with the treated coeliac patients being intermediate. The raised mucosal plasma cell counts reflect the local mucosal production of immunoglobulin but not the immunoglobulin concentrations of serum, emphasising the importance of studying the immune function of the gut itself in coeliac disease rather than immunological abnormalities in serum.
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- G M Wood
- Department of Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK
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Coeliac disease is defined as that disorder in which there is an abnormality of the small intestinal mucosa manifested by contact with the gluten of wheat and certain other cereal grains. In the immunological theory of the pathogenesis of coeliac disease, gluten, or a component, is viewed as the antigen responsible for the immune response. The search for the gluten component responsible for 'toxicity' and, by implication, antigenicity, is described. The antigen may be presented differently to the immune system by an abnormal cell membrane, either of the enterocyte, lymphocyte or macrophage. Alternatively, increased amounts of antigen may be absorbed due to increased membrane binding or permeability, either of which could be genetically determined. As a further possibility, coeliac disease may occur because the patients are immunologically hyperresponsive and this too appears to be genetically determined. The perturbations which occur in the mucosal immune system and the systemic immune system are described. It is conceivable that the major complications described (intestinal ulceration, malignancy and splenic atrophy) result from immunological disturbances. The incidence of childhood coeliac disease is declining, which may be due to altered exposure to, or increased protection from, the antigen in infancy, or to changes in environmental factors. The immunological mystery of coeliac disease continues to excite interest and fascination, and has certainly been a stimulus to our deeper understanding of gastrointestinal immunology.
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Wood GM, Trejdosiewicz LK, Losowsky MS. ELISA for measurement of secretory IgA distinct from monomeric IgA. J Immunol Methods 1987; 97:269-74. [PMID: 3819445 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(87)90470-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A micro enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) is described for the quantitation of secretory IgA as distinct from monomeric IgA. The assay is sensitive (linear down to 30 ng/ml) and reproducible (inter-assay variation: 17.0%; intra-assay variation: 11.5%). The assay has the further advantages of rapidity, the ability to handle large numbers of samples, and uses commercially available reagents throughout. Minimal interference from a large (greater than 25-fold) excess of monomeric IgA was observed. The results obtained for serum secretory IgA concentrations by this method correlated well with those reported by other workers for normal control patients, patients with IgA deficiency and patients with liver disease.
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