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  • Title: Natural emergence of antigen-reactive T cells in lepromatous leprosy patients during erythema nodosum leprosum.
    Author: Laal S, Bhutani LK, Nath I.
    Journal: Infect Immun; 1985 Dec; 50(3):887-92. PubMed ID: 2933339.
    Abstract:
    Fifteen lepromatous leprosy (LL) patients undergoing erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) reactions were compared with 13 stable, uncomplicated, anergic individuals of the same leprosy background. ENL patients showed significant antigen-induced leukocyte migration inhibition (migration index = 0.058 +/- 0.01), paralleling the values obtained with a responder tuberculoid leprosy population (migration index = 0.04 +/- 0.004). Both phytohemagglutinin-induced general T-cell proliferation and, more significantly, antigen-induced lymphoproliferation were enhanced during the acute phase of the reaction. Suppressor cell activity, monitored by a costimulant assay, showed enhanced antigen-stimulated suppression of mitogen responses. Interestingly, the improvement in in vitro T-cell responses was not reflected in dermal reactivity, since 48-h delayed-type hypersensitivity responses after intradermal injection of soluble Mycobacterium leprae antigens continued to be poor. After subsidence of reactional lesions, leukocyte migration inhibition, lymphoproliferation, and suppressor cell activity were reduced to the unresponsive state seen in stable LL patients. Significantly, perturbations of T-cell reactivity are detectable in ENL reactions, indicating the natural but transient emergence of antigen-induced T cells in LL.
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