anergy

Factors limiting the usefulness of anergy skin testing include problems with standardization and reproducibility, the low risk for TB associated with a diagnosis of anergy, and the lack of apparent benefit of preventive therapy for groups of anergic HIV-infected person.

If the concern is an anergic reaction, the answer is "very quickly." At least 90% of the venom is released within 20 seconds of the sting, and 100% by one minute.

Taborda, "Additive effect of P10 immunization and chemotherapy in anergic mice challenged intratracheally with virulent yeasts of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis," Microbes and Infection, vol.

Usually, self-reactive B cells remain anergic in the periphery without T cell co-stimulation.

(86) On the other hand, treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with sufficiently bactericidal multidrug therapy in anergic AIDS patients has generally proved successful.

Elephant 3 had no antibodies, which may indicate an anergic status of the mycobacteria-specific immune response (13).

Treatment of imipramine-resistant recurrent depressions, IV: a double-blind crossover study of tranylcypromine for anergic bipolar depression.

However, no reports have demonstrated that [gamma]-oryzanol possesses the ability to suppress anergic reaction.

Some evidence suggests that immunosuppressive medications and diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis may themselves make a patient with LTBI anergic, thereby resulting in a false-negative TST.

Youn, "Acquisition of anergic and suppressive activities in transforming growth factor-[beta]-costimulated [CD4.sup.+][CD25.sup.-] T cells," International Immunology, vol.

There has been speculation that synovial B-cells in RA may have some unusual lack of responsiveness abolishing their proliferative capability (anergic B-cells) leaving intact their antibody production [251].