[Effects of immunomodulating therapy on immune status and the disease course in patients with relapsing herpetic stomatitis]

Stomatologiia (Mosk). 2004;83(5):20-3.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Clinical and immunological efficiency of leukinferone in combination with polyoxidonium (immunomodulator) was studied in patients with relapsing herpetic stomatitis (RHS). The levels of alpha- and gamma-IFN were decreased, levels of IgM, IgG, and IgE were increased, active oxygen forms were actively produced, and the count of CD8(+)-cells was increased in patients with RHS. Treatment with polyoxidonium and leukinferone led to an increase of the blood levels of alpha- and gamma-IFN, decrease of IgM, IgG, and IgE levels, normalization of phagocytosis, and decrease of CD8(+)-cell count. The treatment had a pronounced clinical effect in patients with RHS of any severity, which indicates the efficiency of these drugs in combined therapy of patients with RHS.

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / pharmacology
  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / therapeutic use*
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Antibody Formation / drug effects
  • CD8 Antigens / blood
  • Cytokines / pharmacology
  • Cytokines / therapeutic use*
  • Drug Combinations
  • Drug Synergism
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Cellular / drug effects
  • Immunoglobulins / blood
  • Interferon Type I / pharmacology
  • Interferon Type I / therapeutic use*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Phagocytosis / drug effects
  • Secondary Prevention
  • Stomatitis, Herpetic / blood
  • Stomatitis, Herpetic / drug therapy*
  • Stomatitis, Herpetic / immunology*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • CD8 Antigens
  • Cytokines
  • Drug Combinations
  • Immunoglobulins
  • Interferon Type I
  • Organic Chemicals
  • leukinferon
  • polyoxydonium