Antinuclear Antibody
Clinical utility of antinuclear antibody tests in children
... Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, multi- system disease characterized by inflammation in multiple organs, including kidney, heart, lung, and brain [1]. Although generally considered rare in children, as ...
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Exposure of HEp-2 Cells to Stress Conditions Influences Antinuclear Antibody Reactivity
... This study of stress-related antinuclear antibody (ANA) reactivity was undertaken with the objective of improving clinical ANA testing. ANA was determined by parallel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays of ...
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The Outcome of Children Referred to a Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic With a Positive Antinuclear Antibody Test but Without an Autoimmune Disease
... Positive Antinuclear Antibody Test but Without an Autoimmune Disease The Outcome of Children Referred to a Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic With a. Services[r] ...
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Performance analysis of automated evaluation of antinuclear antibody indirect immunofluorescent tests in a routine setting
... Purpose Indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) on the human epithelial cell-line HEp-2 (or derivatives) serves as the gold standard in antinuclear antibody (ANA) screening. IIF, and its evaluation, is a ...
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A Clinical Study of Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases and Utility of Antinuclear Antibody Testing in Diagnosis, Clinical Correlation and Disease Monitoring
... Autoimmune disease is a disorder with destruction of the tissue due to autoimmune phenomenon. Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are a collection of autoimmune disorders characterised by antinuclear antibodies ...
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Antinuclear antibody and rheumatoid factor positivity in temporomandibular disorders
... The results of this study showed that male TMD pa- tients with ANA/RF positivity were associated with higher pain levels and more clinical dysfunction followed by worse long-term treatme[r] ...
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Neuronal antinuclear antibody in sensory neuronopathy from lung cancer
... By IIF, serum (dilu- tion 1:50) from 2 of 25 normal healthy adults, 2 of 19 patients with lung carcinoma (5 with small cell type), 2 of 12 patients with breast carcinoma, 0 o[r] ...
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Analysis of speckled fluorescent antinuclear antibody test antisera using electrofocused nuclear antigens
... Nuclear antigens separated by electrofocusing were electrophoresed into agarose containing 50 Ml/ml of antiserum with specificity for the RNP antigen with a speckled FANA titer of 1:640.[r] ...
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Antinuclear antibody prevalence in a general pediatric cohort from Mexico City: discordance between by immunofluorescence and multiplex assays
... We used the ANA multiplex immunoassay (BioPlex 2200 ANA Screen; BioRad, Hercules, CA, USA), an automated two-color fluorescence microbead flow system in which recombinant or purified native antigen has been linked to ...
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A novel autoantibody against ephrin type B receptor 2 in acute necrotizing encephalopathy
... A 39-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hos- pital because of coma. One day previously, she had been admitted to another hospital because of diarrhea lasting three days. The next morning, she suddenly fell into ...
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Risk factors for ANA positivity in healthy persons
... Introduction: The finding of antinuclear antibody (ANA) positivity in a healthy individual is usually of unknown significance and in most cases is benign. However, a subset of such individuals is at risk ...
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Development of the Antinuclear and Anticytoplasmic Antibody Consensus Panel by the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists
... on Antinuclear Antibody Serology: the International League Against Rheumatism, the Interna- tional Union of Immunological Societies and the World Health Organization ...
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Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in active and refractory systemic lupus erythematosus: a multicenter clinical study
... Serum antinuclear antibody and anti-double-stranded DNA antibody decreased after MSCT, with statistically significant differences at 3-month follow-up ...
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Recurrent lymphocytic myocarditis in a young male with ulcerative colitis
... ANA: antinuclear antibody; ANCA: anti-centromere antibody; ECG: electrocardiogram; EF: ejection fraction; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; IBD: inflammatory bowel disease; LV: l[r] ...
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Palliative long term abdominal drains versus repeated drainage in individuals with untreatable ascites due to advanced cirrhosis: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial
... Antimitochondrial antibody; ANA: Antinuclear antibody; BSCTU: Brighton and Sussex Clinical Trials Unit; BSMS: Brighton and Sussex Medical School; BSUH: Brighton and Sussex University Hospital; CI: ...
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Association of an overlap syndrome of autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis with cytomegalovirus infection
... fluorescence antinuclear antibody, negative for antismooth muscle antibodies but positive for antinuclear antibody (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and antimitochondrial M2 antibody, ...
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Objective: In this study our main aim is to detect whether ANA positivity is associated with an increased
... Antinuclear antibody levels in Polymorphic Light Eruption and their relation to the severity of ...A. Antinuclear antibodies in patients with polymorphic light eruption: a long‐ term follow‐ up ...
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Complex assessment of bone mineral density, fracture risk, vitamin D status, and bone metabolism in Hungarian systemic sclerosis patients
... Abbreviations 25-OH-D3: 25-hydroxy-cholecalciferol; ACA: Anti-centromere antibody; ANA: Antinuclear antibody; BMD: Bone mineral density; BMI: Body mass index; CS: Corticosteroid; CTX: C-[r] ...
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Prognostic profile of systemic sclerosis: analysis of the clinical EUSTAR cohort in China
... Anticentromere antibody; ACR: American College of Rheumatology; ANA: Antinuclear antibody; ANOVA: Analysis of variability; ASCS: Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study; CCVd: Chronic cerebrovascular ...
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RAS-associated Autoimmune Leukoproliferative disease (RALD) manifested with early-onset SLE-like syndrome: a case series of RALD in Chinese children
... of antinuclear antibody (ANA), anticardiolipin antibody (ACL), as well as decreased complements, ac- cording to the Systemic Lupus International Collaborat- ing Clinics (SLICC) criteria ...
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