the bulk of our knowledge on immunosuppression in malnutrition comes from the experiments done on cell-mediated immunity. however, malnutrition-induced modifications of humoral immunity have been less understood. the objective of this study was to determine the effects of acute protein-energy malnutrition on serum levels of immunoglobulins and their subclasses in murine models. male and female ...

quantitative serum level measurements of gc , cp , c3 , igg , iga and 1gm were carried out on 102 patients with esophageal carcinoma following laryngectomy, in comparison with 66 healthy individuals as controls, in gonbad area, north east of iran. the procedure of radioinimuno-diffusion by standard m partigen plates was used for the measurements. a significant decrease was observed in gc level ...

We measured serum immunoglobulins in 52 persons whose blood pressure was higher than 140/90 mm Hg, and 52 normotensive controls matched for age, sex and race. All were selected from a population of actively employed persons undergoing a routine health evaluation. Contrary to previous reports, the hypertensive subjects did not have higher levels of IgG or IgA than the controls. Sixteen hypertens...

Infection and protein calorie malnutrition frequently coexist (Smythe, 1958; Brown, 1965; Phillips and Wharton, 1968), and though it is apparent that infection may affect nutrition adversely, it is difficult to prove that malnutrition is a factor in poor response to infection. In 1965 the World Health Organization Expert Committee on nutrition stated: 'The concept that malnutrition could make m...