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Natural killer (NK) cell activity and responsiveness to interferon (IFN) were measured in the peripheral blood of infants having kwashiorkor or marasmus and of nutritionally recovered malnourished children. Depression of NK activity in the peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) of the malnourished children was noted, while normal levels of activity were observed in the nutritionally recovered infants. Addition of exogeneous interferon in vitro potentiated the NK levels of PBLs from well-nourished and nutritionally recovered infants, but had either a nonsignificant impact on cells from the marasmic infants or a suppressive effect on the cells from infants with kwashiorkor. The success of exogenous interferon to potentiate the NK levels of PBLs from nutritionally recovered infants suggests that nutritional repletion corrects the impaired cellular responsiveness in these patients.
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