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| Year : 1975 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 14-16 |
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Electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in Eale's disease
VB Pratap, MK Mehra, RK Gupta
Department of Ophthalmology, K.G.'s Medical College, Lucknow, India
Correspondence Address:
V B Pratap
Department of Ophthalmology, K.G.'s Medical College, Lucknow
India
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Pratap V B, Mehra M K, Gupta R K. Electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in Eale's disease. Indian J Ophthalmol 1975;23:14-6 |
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Pratap V B, Mehra M K, Gupta R K. Electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in Eale's disease. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 1975 [cited 2021 Jan 27];23:14-6. Available from: https://www.ijo.in/text.asp?1975/23/4/14/31432 |
The retinal perivasculitis (Eale's Disease) is thought to be a non-specific tissue response to a number of agents; tuberculo-allergic process, focal infection in skin, tooth or tonsil, certain endocrine factors involving menstrual cycle, hyperthyroidism and pituitary dyscrasias, constipation and a dietary deficiency of vitamin `C' have been suggested to have some etiological significance in the causation of Eale's disease. In majority of these cases there is no particular systemic cause, hence the exact etiology of the Eale's disease remains unknown.
A large number of diseases reflect some alterations in electrophoratic pattern of serum proteins. The changes in serum proteins in patients of Eale's disease have not been well studied. It was therefore of interest to investigate the electrcphoretic pattern of serum proteins in patients of Eale's disease, so as to throw some light on the possible etiological factors in these patients.
| Material and Methods | |  |
Twenty seven patients of Eale's disease and 20 healthy human beings constituted the subject material for this study. Relevant clinical data were recorded and blood was collected. Erythrocyte sedemendation rate was measured in Wintrobe's tube. Serum proteins were estimated by Biuret method of Reinhold[4] as described by Varley[8]. Paper electrophoresis of these sera was performed following the technique of Henry, Golub and Sobel[2] on Whatman filter paper No.3, using barbitone buffer of pH 8.6 as described by Varley[8]. Quantitative measurement of the relative size of various protein fractions was done by dilution with 0.01N NaOH as described by Varley[8].
| Results | | |
Results are shown in [Tables 1],[Table - 2].
| Discussion | | |
The electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in healthy human beings using the technique of paper electrophoresis has been studied by various workers [3],[5],[8],[7]. Our results of electrophoretic analysis of serum proteins in healthy human beings are compared to them.
Since healthy human subjects showed a minimum serum albumin content of 48.0% and maximum content of alpha-1, alpha-2, beta and gamma globulins as 5.9%, 10.7%, 15.0% and 26.9% respectively therefore in patients of Eale's disease an albumin content of less than 48.0% and alpha-1, alpha-2, beta and gamma globulin levels of more than 5.9%, 10.7%, 15.0% and 26.9% respectively were taken as abnormal. Thus the comparative evaluation of electrophoretic pattern of serum proteins in patients of Eale's disease and healthy human beings of similar age and geographical distribution revealed elevated levels of serum alpha-1 and alpha-2 globulins in most of the patients of Eale's disease and increase in serum gamma globulins in 33% of these cases. Since most of these patients showed elevation of various globulin fractions in their sera, therefore reduction in the concentration of albumin fraction in the sera of these patients seems to be relative. Our findings differ from those of Kimura, Carriker and Hogan[9] who did not observe any consistent abnormal protein patterns in the electrophoretogrammes of serum preteins in five patients of Eale's disease studied by them.
Thus, in the present study, the elevation in serum alpha and gamma globulin fractions in most of the patients of Eale's disease points to a possible role of some immunological process, which manifests as retinal perivasculitis in the eye; an increased value of E.S.R. in most of these cases is consistent with this suggestion. The histological changes observed in the perivasculitis of Eale's disease which resemble very much with the histological changes observed in the blood vessels in various collagen diseases, lent further support to our suggestion. It is therefore tempting to speculate that the perivasculitis in Eale's disease may be in immunological phenomenon.
| Summary | | |
Blood collected from 27 patients of Eale's disease and 20 healthy human beings was subjected to paper electrophoresis of serum proteins and determination of E.S.R. (Wintrobe). The electrophoretic pattern of the serum proteins showed a rise in alpha-1 and alpha-2 globulins in most and in gamma globulins in about 33% of the patients of Eale's disease, the raised values of E.S.R. were encountered in about 66% of these cases. It is suggested that Eale's disease may be of immunological nature.
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[Table - 1], [Table - 2]
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