[Phagocytosis of immune complexes by leukocytes in patients with schizophrenia]

Comparative investigation of the leukocytes' in vitro capabilities of attacking the immune complexes was performed in 20 schizophrenic patients and 20 healthy individuals. The patients' leukocytes were considerably less active against the immune complexes that those of healthy persons that was probably related to both primary defect in the phagocytic cells and their overload (block) by different biologically active factors. Levamisole in vitro stimulated these events.