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Salivary lactoferrin in primary Sjögren's syndrome
N Jezequel1, F Depasse, J Jouquan
1Department of Immunology, Brest University Medical School, France.
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Parotid salivary lactoferrin (LF) levels were measured in 26 patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), 19 patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) and 32 normal controls, by using a radial-immunodiffusion technique. The levels of LF were higher in SS than in KCS patients (23 +/- 21, 10 +/- 10, p less than 0.03) and in SS patients than in normals (7 +/- 6 micrograms/ml, p less than 0.001). There was some relationship of the LF level to the labial salivary gland histopathology grade.