[Correlation between syndrome types of traditional Chinese medicine and peripheral T lymphocytes subsets in Graves' disease]

Abstract

This paper reports the determined results of OKT3, OKT4, OKT8, ERFC, smIg and CIC, TMCA, TGA in 31 cases of Graves disease and in 20 normal controls. The results showed that the OKT3, OKT4, OKT8, ERFC were significantly lower than those in the normal controls, whereas the smIg was higher than that in normal controls. The difference between the two groups was very significant. Even though the ratio of OKT4/OKT8 showed no significance of both. Typology of Graves disease according to the theory of TCM, all 31 cases were divided into two types: (1) 14 cases of depression of Liver-energy and asthenia of Spleen; (2) 17 cases of deficiency of yin leads to hyperactivity of Fire. The OKT8 and the ratio of OKT4/OKT8 in the latter respectively were lower and higher than those of the former. The difference between the two types was significant (P less than 0.01, P less than 0.05) whereas the positive rates of the CIC, TMCA, TGA also were higher in the deficiency of Yin leads to hyperactivity of Fire than those in the depression of Liver-energy and asthenia of Spleen. After treatment with combined TCM-WM on 31 cases of Graves disease, it was found that the OKT4, OKT8, ERFC were significantly elevated, the smIg was markedly decreased than those without treatment. It was also found that smIg markedly decreased in two types, OKT8, ratio of OKT4/OKT8 in the latter and ERFC in both types all returned to normal. Remainder indexes had no obvious change before and after treatment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)