Selenium and immune functions in humans
| Autor: | Liisa Räsänen, J Foreman, O Muukkonen, I Jokinen, Heikki Arvilommi, J K Huttunen, K Poikonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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Blood Platelets Male Leukocyte migration medicine.medical_specialty Staphylococcus aureus Lymphocyte Immunology Population chemistry.chemical_element Biology Lymphocyte Activation Microbiology Selenium Immune system Phagocytosis Selenium deficiency Internal medicine medicine Humans education chemistry.chemical_classification education.field_of_study Glutathione Peroxidase Lymphokines Glutathione peroxidase Lymphokine food and beverages Middle Aged medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Antibody Formation Parasitology Granulocytes Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Infection and immunity. 41(1) |
| ISSN: | 0019-9567 |
| Popis: | Earlier animal experiments have shown that selenium depletion may decrease immune functions. In this human study, 40 volunteers from a population with low serum selenium concentrations were supplemented with selenium or placebo for 11 weeks. Blood samples were drawn at intervals for analysis of selenium status and immune function. At the end of the supplementation period, plasma selenium levels were 74 ng/ml in the placebo group and 169 ng/ml in the supplemented group. The improvement in selenium status was associated with a 57% increase in the activity of platelet glutathione peroxidase in the group supplemented with selenium, but there was no increase in the activity of this enzyme in the placebo-treated subjects. Immune function was measured in vitro by tests of lymphocyte and granulocyte activity. Intracellular killing of Staphylococcus aureus by granulocytes was slightly lower in the placebo group than in the selenium group at the end of the supplementation period (77.2 compared to 85.2%; P less than 0.05). No significant changes were observed in phagocytosis, chemotactic factor generation, antibody or leukocyte migration inhibitory factor production by lymphocytes, or proliferative responses to phytohemagglutinin or concanavalin A. These results suggest that the selenium deficiency of the order found in Finland and some other areas of the world has little, if any, influence on the immune functions measured in this study. |
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