Patients with a reduction in the number of CD4 lymphocytes and functions are prone to bacterial and viral infection. Stress can induce a decrease in CD4 lymphocytes, but the naïve lymphocyte increases after stress management. To evaluate the influence of meditation on the T lymphocyte subpopulation, EDTA blood from 31 monks who meditated and 32 who did not were collected and stained. T lymphocy...

Plasma cortisol levels were determined in 51 children on admission to hospital for a variety of acute illnesses which were associated with a lymphopenia, and again when the lymphocyte count had returned to normal. The ratio cortisol level/lymphocyte count was much higher in the acute phase of the illness than later when the lymphocyte count had returned to normal. It is concluded that the lymph...

Background: Hospital malnutrition, usually secondary to various diseases and their treatments, is an important problem in our clinical practice. For its proper assessment, it is crucial to use a nutritional alert system, such as the CONUT (COntrol NUTrition) program; this tool uses 3 analytical parameters: serum albumin, total cholesterol, and total lymphocyte count. <str...

INTRODUCTION: This study was designed to compare the immature granulocyte (IG) count, IG-to-lymphocyte ratio (IGLR), complete blood count (CBC) values, and inflammatory parameters of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR), C-reactive protein (CRP), ferritin level, CRP-to-albumin (CAR) measured at hospital admission in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) non-C...

previous studies have indicated relaxant, inhibitory effect on histamine (h1) and muscarinic receptors, and stimulatory effect on β-drenoceptor of crocus sativus on guinea pig tracheal chains. in the present study, the effect of the extract of c. sativus and one of its constituents, safranal, on the inflammatory changes of sensitized guinea pigs was examined. eight groups of sensitized guinea p...

Hematologic parameters of systemic inflammation are receiving attention as promising prognostic indicators in cancer patients. Here, we investigated the relation and compared the prognostic values of circulating blood cell-based parameters and tumor F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in patients with stage I nonsmall cell lung cancers (NSCLC).Subjects were 1034 patients with newly diagnosed s...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of malnutrition in the Buddhist Priest Patients on admission to Priest Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHOD During September 2007, 97 Buddhist Priest admitted to Priest Hospital were assessed for their nutritional status by using Subjective global assessment (SGA) and Body mass index (BMI). Serum albumin, hematocrit, and total lymphocyte count (TLC) were also e...

BACKGROUND A feature of HIV/AIDS is chronic immune activation, which results in a number of complications including inflammation-related disorders and blood cytopaenias. Immune activation status is not routinely tested in HIV infection. However, the full blood count (FBC) is a commonly performed test. OBJECTIVE We hypothesised that FBC parameters would be significantly different in HIV-infect...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of the baseline status of patients with hepatitis B virus-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure on short-term outcomes. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted that included a total of 138 patients with hepatitis B virus-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of M...

Lymphocyte exit from lymph nodes and their recirculation into blood is controlled by the sphingolipid sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P). The cellular receptor mediating lymphocyte exit is S1P(1), one of five S1P receptors. Nonselective agonists for S1P receptors lead to blood lymphocyte count reduction. The effects of selective S1P(1) agonists on blood lymphocyte count and their impact in models of...