[Adherence of peripheral blood neutrophils in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with ACTH. Preliminary report]

The authors studied the adherence of peripheral blood neutrophils in 15 patients with multiple sclerosis treated with ACTH. Increased adherence was found only in the whole population of white blood cells and immature precursors of granulocytes and polymorphonuclears but not in lymphocytes and eosinophils. Administration of ACTH caused a statistically not significant decrease of the adherence of various forms of white blood cells.