Multiple sclerosis: Heterology among early T cells and T G cells

Circulating early T cells and T G cells were estimated simultaneously in 100 patients with multiple sclerosis and 21 controls. The results were analyzed from individual patients, from patients grouped according to disease activity, and from some patients studied longitudinally. Previously documented fluctuations in these two T cell populations were confirmed. By comparing the fluctuations and by examining the distribution of T G cells in suspensions of isolated early and isolated late T cells, it was found that T G cells are a T cell subpopulation distinct from early T cells.