Measurement of Cell-Mediated Immunity

Abstract

The recent awareness of medical practitioners concerning the role of immunologic mechanisms in disease has rendered the development and availability of relevant new technics important. In particular, the last decade has seen the creation of several new methods for studying cell-mediated immunity (CMI), the mechanism implicated in chronic intracellular infections such as tuberculosis, in contact allergy and allergic granulomatous responses, in the rejection of solid, vascularized tissue allografts and tumors, and in certain forms of autoimmunity.^{1 , 2} The research of the last several years has shown that CMI is a function of the thymus-dependent system of lymphocytes.Apparent hypofunction of the . . .