“…the peripheral venous blood, confirms our recent data [5] and also the majority of publications [1,18,19,22,24], The T suppressor populations, at a high index of activity of CD [according to Best et al,ref. 3] and without steroid treatment, was also found to be reduced, as indicated by the results of Pfreundschuh et al [19] and Godin and Sachar [11], Intestinal sequestration of the T cells as an increased enteric loss might serve to explain the detected altered status of mononuclear cells in CD [6].…”