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Immunoglobulin and complement bearing polymorphonuclear leukocytes in allergic contact dermatitis and psoriasis vulgaris *
Author(s) -
HUNYADI J.,
HAMERLINCK F.,
CORMANE R.H.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1976.tb06119.x
Subject(s) - psoriasis , immunology , medicine , complement (music) , allergic contact dermatitis , contact dermatitis , atopic dermatitis , antibody , immunoglobulin g , dermatology , allergy , biology , biochemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
SUMMARY Immunofluorescence techniques were used to demonstrate the presence of immunoglobulin (Ig) and complement (C) bearing polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) in specimens of skin from the lesions of ten patients with allergic contact dermatitis and of ten with psoriasis vulgaris. The distribution patterns of these Ig‐ and C‐coated cells in the peripheral blood of the twenty patients were also studied. Ten normal healthy controls were included. In cases of allergic contact dermatitis, IgD was the predominant class of Ig on the PMNL. The percentages of C‐bearing PMNL were also significantly increased, suggesting that both molecules might be present on the cell membrane of these cells at the same time. In psoriasis vulgaris, the predominant class of Ig on the PMNL was IgG. The percentages of PMNL coated with C were not significantly raised. These results suggest that in allergic contact dermatitis the PMNL can be coated with both Ig and C which may render them cytophilic; they also show that in psoriasis vulgaris PMNL can bind Ig. In the ten healthy controls, it was possible to distinguish between those PMNL which are and those which arc not bearing immunoglobulin.