Study of systemic cellular immune responses in smokers

Abstract EN

Phagocytic activity by using nitroblue tetrazolium reduction (NBT) and leukocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) were studied in thirty health persons (20 smokers and 10 in nonsmokers).

Blood with anticoagulant were collected from them and used to study NBT and LIF.

The results found that there are no significant differences between smokers and nonsmokers in NBT test.

The main of LIf in smokers was 0.528 while in nonsmokers was 0.86 and high significant differences at level P < 0.05.

this study found that smoking effect on specific cellular immune response but no effect on innate immune response