[The lysozyme content of phagocytosing peripheral blood cells in sarcoidosis patients]

Abstract

The content of lysozyme in the phagocytosing peripheral blood cells was carried out in 50 patients with active pulmonary sarcoidosis depending on the clinical form, extension and duration of the pathological processes. The function of these cells showed essential changes in patients with widely spread old processes and those of long duration. The changes of lysozyme secretion by neutrophil granulocytes and monocytes were diverse that may be explained by different mechanisms of this process in the cells.