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AIM: To demonstrate whether function disorder of T cells from SLE patients was relative to abnormal biochemical pathways mediated by TCR/ CD3 complex and whether this abnormality was relative to the InsP(3) production. METHODS: Human T cells were isolated through Nylon-columns from heparinized peripheral blood from SLE patients and control individuals. Percentage of CD3(+) T cells was detected by flow cytometry. After cross-linking of anti-CD3 mAbs to sheep anti-mouse IgG and stimulating T cells, the changes of free calcium ion within T cells was observed successively for 10 minutes by an adhesion cytometry. Flow cytometry was used to detect the difference in positive rate between normal individual's and SLE patient's T cells. Level of InsP(3) was detected by a radioreceptor assay kit. RESULTS: (1)Flow cytometry analysis showed that CD3(+) T cells obtained through nylon column accounted for more than 90%.(2)The base line recordings of [Ca(2+)]i response from SLE patients were similar to that from normal control (P=0.105). Peak and plateau [Ca(2+)]i response in T cells of SLE patients were significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.001). (3)The percentage of the CD3(+) T cells was similar in both individuals (P=0.665).(4)No differences in the anti-CD3 mAb-mediated InsP(3) generation were found between the two groups (P=0.537). CONCLUSION: TCR/ CD3-mediated [Ca(2+)]i responses in T cells from SLE patients is abnormal, and the abnormality has no relation to InsP(3) generation.
