[The role of uric acid in effects of balneotherapy on the phagocytic link of immunity and unspecific defense at the Truskavets health resort].

Revealed in the wake of balneotherapy at the Truskavets health-resort were two opposite types of changes--those in the level of uriacidemia and in the content of theophylline-sensitive lymphocytes that are probably caused by central and peripheral effects of uric acid. In this setting, parameters characterizing the phagocytic link of immunity and unspecific defense are noted to change unidirectionally, in other words, they remain unaffected by changes in uriacidemia.