[Immune system function in the participants in the cleanup of the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station]. / Sostoianie immunnoi sistemy u uchastnikov likvidatsii posledstvii avarii na ChAES.

ABSTRACT

Imbalance was revealed in the proportions of T-lymphocyte subpopulations in those persons engaged in activity in mining employment who had been exposed to a complex of the radiation accident factors. Maximum reduction in the lymphocyte suppressor activity was recordable in those patients in whom the doses of radioactive irradiation received exceeded 25 s Gy. Depression was found of humoral immunity manifested by a drop in the absolute as well as relative numbers of B-lymphocytes and fall in the blood serum levels of Ig G, A. The results of study of clinical-biochemical and immunologic parameters of blood permit individualized therapies be developed, prophylactic measures to be devised to deal with the relevant pathologic processes and conditions in the cohorts examined.