[COMPARATIVE ACTIVITY OF INFLUENZA VACCINES: EFFECT ON LYMPHO- CYTE SUBPOPULATION STRUCTURE].

AIM: Study subpopulation structure of lymphocytes in healthy individuals under the effect of various influenza vaccines in an in vitro system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Evaluation of immune- phenotype features of PBMCs, activated in vitro by immune-adjuvanted and unadjuvanted vaccines against influenza in healthy individuals, was carried out by using flow cytometry method. RESULTS: Grippol plus vaccine caused a more pronounced stimulating effect compared with subunit and split-vaccines on NK-cells, cells with markers of early activation CD45/CD25, induced the quantity of natural regulatory cells (CD4/CD25/Foxp3), increase of the number of B-cells and reduced the amount of cell types with apoptosis marker CD45/CD95. CONCLUSION: Immune-adjuvanted vaccine Grippol plus induced formation of effectors of both innate and adaptive immunity and possessed the most powerful potential regarding activation of various types of immune-competent cells compared with unadjuvanted vaccines.

[The characteristic of immunity in long-lived persons and selection of the immunosenescence markers].

Purpose of the work is to select the indices of immunograms, associated with immunosenescence. The lymphocyte subpopulations were defined by the method of polychrome flowing cytometry in 276 patients of 90+ year with the identical spectrum of chronic unspecific inflammatory diseases. The cluster was revealed consisting of subpopulation of T-lymphocytes (T-lymph) with the high frequency of deviations from standard--helper CD4+, cytotoxic CD8+--T-lymph. The activation of immunity was confirmed by the expression of HLA-DR molecule in 100% of persons with an increase of the absolute number CD4+ and/or CD8+. Reduction in the CD8+ and/or CD4+ was associated with the immune deficient state and the frequency of the increased actTcontent within limits of 63-83%. In 36 long-livers a quantity CD4+ and CD8+ corresponded to standard, 33 of them demonstrated actT exceeded standard. These patients were carried to the group of activation also. Basic group had the quantity CD8+ deficit (73%). In this group, frequency of the development of neuro-degenerate distributions and pathologic changes in the osteomuscular tissue were reliably higher in the persons at the age of 92 years and older than in persons younger 92 years. We consider that CD8+ deficit at the age older 90 year is biomarker of immunosenescence and the risk of an increase in the frequency of development of chronic unspecific inflammatory diseases.

[Quantitative changes in characteristics of immunity in longlivers].

In 93 persons aged 90 to 103 years old the subpopulation compositon of lymphocytes and the level of thymic serum activity (TSA) was studied. In the presence of polymorbidity the low level of TSA was observed in 81% of examinees, with the quantitative deficiency in the relative and absolute number of CD3+CD8+ T-lymphocytes (62% and 78% respectively) and the excess in the number CD3+CD4-CD8- T-lymphocytes (42% and 57% respectively). Among CD3+CD4-CD8- T-lymphocytes cells with phenotypes CD3+/-CD4-CD8-CD16- and CD3+CD4-CD16+ were determined. In prolonged imunomonitoring the reciprocacity of changes in the amount of CD3+/-CD4-CD8-CD16- T-lymphocytes was established in relation to the level of TCA and the number of CD3+CD8+ T-lymphocytes. The reversibility of these changes is indicative of the potential of reactivity of the immune system in longlivers. The positive result of laser therapy in persons with quantitative deficiency of CD3+CD8+ T-lymphocytes and the presence of cells with phenotype CD3+/-CD4-CD8-CD16- was associated with the restoration of the size of CD3+CD8+ subpopulation and a decrease in an amount of CD3+/-CD4-CD8-CD16-. The unfavorable prognostic sign was, seemingly, the quantitative deficiency of CD3+CD8+ T-lymphocytes with the low level of TCA in the absence of CD3+/-CD4-CD8-CD16- T-lymphocytes.

[Methodological approaches to the analysis of postradiation impairment of lympho- and hematopoiesis]. / Metodicheskie podkhody k analizu postradiatsionnykh narushenii limfo- i gemopoéza.

Human intrathymic precursors are characterized by mitogenic reaction on thymic hormone, lacking the cortical and medullar thymic membrane markers (CD3, CD4 and/or CD8) and expressing of the common T-cell CD7 and CD5 antigens. Fraction 1.062 g/cm3 of peripheral white blood cells contains cells with analogous characteristics. The cell fraction of blood from men participated in amelioration after the Chernobyl accident is enriched with hemopoietic precursors (CD4+), pre-T-cells, reacting to thymosin (CD5+CD3-), and CD3+CD4-CD8- T-cells in a greater extent than the cell fraction from donors blood. Defects of T-cell and hemopoietic differentiation in children migrated from the Chernobyl area to Moscow Region were more substantial than in "ameliorators" and correlated with drop of thymic serum activity level. Research substantiates the approach to analysis of radiation-induced defects in early stages of lympho- and hemopoiesis.