Changes of peripheral blood dendritic cell subgroup in pulmonary tuberculosis patients / 第三军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the changes of peripheral blood dendritic cell(DC) subgroup in amount in pulmonary tuberculosis patients.Methods DC1 and DC2 subgroups were detected in peripheral blood of 70 pulmonary tuberculosis patients by tricolor analytic method of flow cytometry.Results In active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis,DC1/PBMC,DC2/PBMC and the absolute quantity of DC1,DC2 in peripheral blood were significantly lower than healthy subjects(P0.05);The absolute quantity of DC2 in active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis was obviously lower than that in inactive stage(P