[Sensitization of lymphocytes of the cerebrospinal fluid and blood to myelin basic proteins and glycolipids in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis].

Using the test of active E rosettes stimulated with antigen the sensitization was studied of lymphocytes from the cerebrospinal fluid and blood to basic protein of myelin, galactocerebroside and cerebral gangliosides. The investigations were conducted in groups of patients with SSPE and with other non-inflammatory neurological diseases and in a control group without evidence of organic brain damage. It was shown that in SSPE sensitization of these lymphocytes from the CSF and from the blood to the studied antigens occurred with a frequency approaching that in the group of non-inflammatory neurological diseases and less frequently than this was formerly observed in multiple sclerosis.