IMMUNOCOMPETENT SYSTEM AT AMYLOIDOSIS AND SOME ENDOCRINE LESIONS

V.M. HAROUTYUNIAN,
G.A. YEGANIAN

 The authors, Prof. V.M. Haroutyunian, Doctor of Medical Sciences, and G.A. Yeganian, Candidate of Medical Sciences, have generalized and presented the results of their long-standing investigations of immunity T and B systems' participation in pathogenesis of amylodosis and of seroglobulin sources of amyloide formation. The problem of immunogenesis disruption at endocrine lesions is elucidated.
The date concerning hypothalamus and pituitary body's participation in regulation of immunogenesis, dependence of humoral immunity on the functional state of thyroid gland, the effect of thyrotoxicosis and hypothyrosis on the function of adrenal cortex under conditions of active immunogenesis, the importance of thymus in infectious immunity, immunological reactivity at diabetes mellitus and other date are presented.
The book is destined for all medical specialists, as well as specialists dealing with the problems of metabolic endocrine lesions.