No. 0632. "Upper airway inflammation and airway responsiveness in chronic sinusitis". Bucca et al. Eur Respir J 1993; 6 (Suppl. 17): 266s. The underlined r values were incorrectly printed in the abstract book. The correct values are printed here."PC25MIF50 was closely related to PC20FEV1 (r=0.546, prelated to nerve fibres (r=0.427, p...

A study of the clinical course of 20 patients with uveitis treated with transfer factor is reported. Twelve (60%) of the patients were initially immunoincompetent on screening. Eight of the 12 changed to an immunocompetent status after treatment and could either decrease or discontinue their anti-inflammatory drugs. Five had a statistically significant improvement in visual acuity. One of the 8...

A patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis resistant to all tropical therapy has had extensive tests of immunological function carried out before and after administration of transfer factor. Immunological testing has been both specific, directed at responses to candida antigen, and non-specific, directed at general assessment of the patient's immune status. Transfer factor has been admini...

Epstein-Barr virus, the apparent cause of infectious mononucleosis, may also be an etiological agent in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Burkitt 's lymphoma. Lymphocytes from normal individuals with anti-Epstein-Barr virus antibody activity may be sensitized to Epstein-Barr virus and contain transfer factor with the potential to program and/or recruit other lymphocytes to react against the virus an...

H. H. KESARWALA*, R. V. S. K. PRASADt, R. SZEP, E. OLDMAN, S. LANE & P. S. PAPAGEORGIOU The Department ofPediatrics, CMDHJ, Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, * Division ofAllergy Immunology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Elland and Bethesda Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229 and t Division ofAllergy, Department ofPediatrics, Children's Hospital ofMichigan, 3901 Beaubien Boulevar...

Five mongrel dogs were sensitized to tuberculoprotein with Freund adjuvant, as determined by responses to tuberculin skin tests and by in vitro lymphocyte cultures. These animals served as blood donors for production of transfer factor. Nine mongrel dogs received single doses of transfer factor that was tuberculin specific. Successful transfer of tuberculin sensitivity as measured by lymphocyte...

We have detected new clues to the composition and function of "Transfer Factor" using the direct Leucocyte Migration Inhibition (LMI) test as an in vitro assay of Dialysates of Leucocyte Extracts (DLE). This approach has revealed two opposing antigen-specific activities to be present in the same > 3500 < 12,000 DA dialysis fraction - one activity is possessed of Inducer/Helper function (Inducer...

The interesting article by CHINN et al. [1] explored the relationship of transfer factor (TL) or diffusing capacity to alveolar volume (VA) within normal subjects at different depths of inspiration and between normal subjects having lungs of different sizes, and found that the ratio TL/VA (often called the carbon monoxide transfer coefficient (KCO)) varied with VA itself (i.e. lung size) as wel...