Establishing Reference Values for Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Subsets of Healthy Children in China Using a Single Platform. 2022

Liangjun Zhang, and Huixiu Zhong, and Bin Wei, and Jiwen Fan, and Jingyuan Huang, and Yi Li, and Weiping Liu
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Zigong First People's Hospital, Sichuan Province, China.

Lymphocyte subsets significantly change during childhood; thus, age-matched reference values derived from healthy children are crucial. We established reference values for lymphocyte subsets, including T cells (CD3+), CD4 T cells (CD3 + CD4+), CD8 T cells (CD3 + CD8+), double negative T (DNT) cells (CD3 + CD4-CD8-), B cells (CD3-CD19+), NK cells (CD3-CD56+), and NKT-like cells (CD3 + CD56+) in the peripheral blood of 813 healthy children. We used the method of the international standard document (Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute C28-A3) to establish reference intervals with a single platform. First, we used the Skewness and Kurtosis test to analyze the normality of the data. The nonnormally distributed data was transformed into approximately normal distribution by the Box-Cox transformation. Second, we used the Tukey's method to eliminate outliers. Further, all the subjects were grouped into subgroups according to sex (male and female) and age (0-1 month, 2-12 months, 1-3 years, 4-6 years, and 7-18 years). We used the standard normal deviation test (Z-test) to evaluate whether age and sex were possible grouping factors. The analyses indicated age to be an important factor associated with changes in lymphocyte subsets. The absolute number of lymphocyte subsets and total number of lymphocytes, T cells, CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, and B cells gradually increase from birth to 12 months and then gradually decrease with age. Furthermore, CD4 T cells and the ratio of CD4+/CD8+ gradually decrease with age. In contrast, CD8 T and DNT cells gradually increase with age. The percentage and number of NK and NKT-like cells gradually increase with age and remain stable between 1 and 18 years of age. In conclusion, the age-related reference intervals established in healthy children in this study can aid in monitoring and assessing the changes in immune levels in diseased conditions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007223 Infant A child between 1 and 23 months of age. Infants
D008297 Male Males
D012016 Reference Values The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality. Normal Range,Normal Values,Reference Ranges,Normal Ranges,Normal Value,Range, Normal,Range, Reference,Ranges, Normal,Ranges, Reference,Reference Range,Reference Value,Value, Normal,Value, Reference,Values, Normal,Values, Reference
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260 Female Females
D005434 Flow Cytometry Technique using an instrument system for making, processing, and displaying one or more measurements on individual cells obtained from a cell suspension. Cells are usually stained with one or more fluorescent dyes specific to cell components of interest, e.g., DNA, and fluorescence of each cell is measured as it rapidly transverses the excitation beam (laser or mercury arc lamp). Fluorescence provides a quantitative measure of various biochemical and biophysical properties of the cell, as well as a basis for cell sorting. Other measurable optical parameters include light absorption and light scattering, the latter being applicable to the measurement of cell size, shape, density, granularity, and stain uptake. Cytofluorometry, Flow,Cytometry, Flow,Flow Microfluorimetry,Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting,Microfluorometry, Flow,Cell Sorting, Fluorescence-Activated,Cell Sortings, Fluorescence-Activated,Cytofluorometries, Flow,Cytometries, Flow,Flow Cytofluorometries,Flow Cytofluorometry,Flow Cytometries,Flow Microfluorometries,Flow Microfluorometry,Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting,Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sortings,Microfluorimetry, Flow,Microfluorometries, Flow,Sorting, Fluorescence-Activated Cell,Sortings, Fluorescence-Activated Cell
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D016131 Lymphocyte Subsets A classification of lymphocytes based on structurally or functionally different populations of cells. Lymphocyte Subpopulations,Lymphocyte Subpopulation,Lymphocyte Subset,Subpopulation, Lymphocyte,Subpopulations, Lymphocyte,Subset, Lymphocyte,Subsets, Lymphocyte

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