[Results of clinico-immunological testing of myelopid in chronic forms of multiple sclerosis]

Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1992;92(2):18-25.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Forty patients with a verified diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), the majority of whom had the secondary progressive form of the disease, received a short-term treatment with myelopid (MP). After this 10 patients were given a long-term treatment with MP. The clinical trial was carried out by the double blind method using placebo. The patients' status was estimated by special evaluation scales (clinical), immunoassays (the content of T lymphocyte subpopulations, reaction of blast transformation of leukocytes to mitogens under different conditions of cultivation including that in the presence of 0.3 micrograms/ml MP, by assessment of the production and activity of interleukin-2), by the method of evoked potentials and NMR tomography. 60% of the patients manifested an improvement of the clinical status after the short-term MP treatment, which was accompanied by positive dynamics of evoked potentials and a decrease of the functional activity of the cells in the reaction of blast transformation of leukocytes. In such patients, MS ran a more favourable course during 0.5-1.5 years of observation. In 8 patients with the immunologic signs of the pathological process activation, the clinical status worsened after MP. The correlation and regression analyses allowed one to specify the clinico-immunologic indications and contraindications for MP administration. The clinico-immunologic changes noted were not recorded after placebo. In the patients receiving the long-term treatment, one could see a further decline of the functional activity of the cells in the reaction of blast transformation of leukocytes, a rise of the content of T suppressors/killers in the blood, a favourable clinical course of MS.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Comparative Study
  • Controlled Clinical Trial
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Activins*
  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / administration & dosage*
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Double-Blind Method
  • Drug Administration Schedule
  • Female
  • Humans
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Interleukin-2 / biosynthesis*
  • Killer Cells, Natural / drug effects
  • Killer Cells, Natural / immunology
  • Killer Cells, Natural / pathology
  • Lymphocyte Activation / drug effects
  • Lymphocyte Activation / immunology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multiple Sclerosis / drug therapy*
  • Multiple Sclerosis / immunology
  • Oligopeptides*
  • Peptides / administration & dosage*
  • Placebos
  • T-Lymphocytes / drug effects*
  • T-Lymphocytes / immunology
  • T-Lymphocytes / pathology
  • T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / drug effects
  • T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / immunology
  • T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / pathology

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Interleukin-2
  • Oligopeptides
  • Peptides
  • Placebos
  • activin B
  • Activins
  • myelopeptides