@article{9783,
  keywords = {Blister, Cell Count, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, leprosy, Leprosy, Borderline, Leprosy, lepromatous, Leprosy, Tuberculoid, Monocytes, T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory},
  author = {Rangdaeng S and Scollard D M and Suriyanon V and Smith T and Thamprasert K and Theetranont C},
  title = {Studies of human leprosy lesions in situ using suction-induced blisters. 1. Cellular components of new, uncomplicated lesions.},
  abstract = {<p>The cellular contents of blisters induced by suction over new, uncomplicated leprosy lesions, and in the skin of cured, control patients, have been examined with enzyme- and immuno-histochemical staining over a period of 4 days. The total cellularity of the blisters varied over a wide range, not correlated with the type of leprosy. Mononuclear cells predominated at all times studied, with nearly equal percentages of monocytes and T lymphocytes. The T-helper: suppressor ratio was significantly greater in BT than in BL and LL lesions at 48 hr. Suction blisters offer a painless, quantitative, reproducible, multiple-sampling method for obtaining cells from the cutaneous infiltrates of leprosy for phenotyping or functional analysis.</p>
},
  year = {1989},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {57},
  pages = {492-8},
  month = {1989 Jun},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  url = {http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v57n2a07.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}