[The immune status of nonpregnant and pregnant women living constantly under ionizing radiation exposure conditions]. / Immunnyi status neberemennykh i beremennykh zhenshchin, postoianno prozhivaiushchikh v usloviiakh ioniziruiushchego izlucheniia.

A total of 455 women, both pregnant and nonpregnant ones, permanently living in zones I and II of ionizing irradiation, were examined in 13 months after the Chernobyl Power Plant accident. Monocyte phagocytic activity and humoral immunity parameters were under study. An imbalance of the immunity parameters were characteristic of all the examinees living in zone I: they presented with disordered phagocytic activity of the monocytes, elevated levels of circulating R proteins, reduced production of natural and specific antibodies, changed concentrations of the principal immunoglobulin classes. The immune status of women living in the zone II was found lowered at the expense of reduced phagocytic activity of the monocytes, production of natural antibodies and immunoglobulins, shifted to either sides R protein levels, this necessitating immunocorrective therapy before pregnancy onset.