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  • Title: Reduced in vivo cell-mediated immune responses to mumps, tuberculin, and streptokinase/streptodornase but not to Candida albicans in oral lichen planus.
    Author: Simark-Mattsson C, Jontell M, Bergenholtz G, Dahlgren UI.
    Journal: J Dent Res; 1999 Nov; 78(11):1704-10. PubMed ID: 10576166.
    Abstract:
    Oral lichen planus is considered to be a T-cell-mediated disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate the capacity of T-lymphocytes in oral lichen planus patients to respond to a number of commonly encountered environmental antigens in vivo. To do this, we assessed dermal delayed-type hypersensitivity responses to mumps, streptokinase/streptodornase, Candida albicans, and purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) in 17 oral lichen planus patients and in matched controls. Reduced induration in response toward mumps, PPD, and streptokinase/streptodornase was demonstrated in oral lichen planus patients compared with controls. In addition, the total sum of induration diameters was decreased in the patients. However, C. albicans stimulation resulted in similar levels of response in both groups. The differences in induration size between matched patients and controls for mumps and PPD were thus significantly greater than the corresponding differences for the C. albicans antigen. This suggests that a selective difference in the response to these antigens exists in oral lichen planus patients. The results may point to a loss of memory T-helper function to infrequently encountered environmental antigens, represented by mumps, PPD, and streptokinase/streptodornase, contrarily to memory function to common antigens (C. albicans), which seem to be unaffected.
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