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Reticulin antibodies: relationship with endocardium-vessel-interstitium antibodies and heterophilic antibodies.

1. Indirect immunofluorescence was used to compare reticulin antibodies, endocardium-vessel-interstitium (EVI) antibodies and heterophilic antibodies in serum samples from patients with degenerative and inflammatory diseases, Chagas' disease, or paracoccidioidomycosis and from healthy blood donors. 2. The antigen substrates used were rat, mouse and human liver for reticulin antibodies, mouse and human heart and skeletal muscle for EVI factor, and rat heart and rat, mouse and human kidney and stomach for heterophilic antibodies. 3. The three antibodies produced extremely similar fluorescent pat…

Mycobiota и Antifungal Antibodies как новые целевые показатели для диагностики и прогнозирования болезней человека.

Человеческое тело колонизируется различными микроорганизмами, при этом наиболее активно изучаются бактерии. Однако грибы, которые в совокупности известны как «микобиота», все чаще признаются в качестве составных компонентов микробиоты, населяющей почти все мукосальные поверхности. Комменсальные грибы оказывают влияние на иммунитет хост-приемника, как и бактерии, и способствуют выполнению других важных функций, включая метаболизм. В этом новом понимании грибы рассматриваются как потенциальные биомаркеры для диагностики и прогнозирования различных заболеваний. В этом обзоре мы изучаем двойную ро

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The human body is colonized by diverse microorganisms, with bacteria being the most extensively studied. However, fungi, collectively known … e explore the dual roles of fungi as both commensals and pathogens, and the potential of antifungal antibodies to serve as diagnostic and prognostic tools, especially in chronic immune-inflammatory non-communicable diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative disorders. Finally, we address cu …

Speckled pattern antinuclear antibodies resembling anticentromere antibodies.

Two distinct nuclear antigens, designated NSpI and NSpII, have been characterized and differentiated from the centromeric antigen that reacts with sera from patients with the CREST syndrome. Both NSpI and NSpII produce a speckled pattern of indirect immunofluorescence on HEp-2 cells that resembles the pattern seen with anticentromere antibodies (ACA). They are differentiated from the ACA staining pattern by the absence of metaphase chromatin staining by NSpI antisera and by the absence of a discrete speckled pattern of staining by NSpII. Further, both NSpI and NSpII stain predominantly the per…

Crossing of antinuclear antibodies and anti-leishmania antibodies.

Visceral leishmaniasis or Kala-azar is an endemic parasitic infection in Mediterranean countries. We report an interesting case occurring in a 38-year-old woman suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus and secondary antiphospholipid syndrome. In our patient visceral leishmaniasis occurred during high dose-steroids treatment mimicking a flare of lupus. As the lupus resolved under immunosuppressive treatment, a reactivation of visceral leishmaniasis was observed and was confirmed by the successive serological tests which showed crossing of leishmania and antinuclear antibody titers. Our case

Differentiation between mitochondrial antibodies and other auto-antibodies.

A thin-section technique for demonstrating indirect immunofluorescence in tissue section is described. This technique makes it possible to differentiate a mitochondrial antibody from other cytoplasmic antibodies.

Centaur antibodies: Engineered chimeric equine-human recombinant antibodies.

Hyper-immune antisera from large mammals, in particular horses, are routinely used for life-saving anti-intoxication intervention. While hig … otulinum A or B neurotoxins. Highly specific scFv clones were selected and expressed as full-length antibodies, carrying equine V-genes and human Gamma1/Lambda constant genes, to be referred as "Centaur antibodies". Preliminary assessment in a murine model of botulism established their therapeutic potential. The experimental approach detailed in the current …

Clinical significance of antinuclear antibodies, anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and anticardiolipin antibodies in heroin abusers.

BACKGROUND: Different autoantibodies and immunologic abnormalities have been described in heroin abusers positive for human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B surface antigen, or hepatitis C virus, as well as in addicts with negative viral markers. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of different autoantibodies in heroin addicts. METHODS: We studied 10 heroin addicts (8 males and 2 females aged 18-30 years) with a mean duration of heroin abuse of 46.5 months (range 6-96) for the presence of the following autoantibodies: antinuclear antibodies and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies…

Antiphospholipid antibodies.

Antiphospholipid antibodies are prevalent in systemic lupus erythematosus. These antibodies are not specific for systemic lupus erythematosus but may be found in other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, mixed connective tissue disease. Sjögren's syndrome, syphilis and chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. High serum levels of anticardiolipin antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus are associated with circulating lupus anticoagulant, false positive VDRL and the occurrence of thrombosis, thrombocytopenia and recurrent abortions. The immunological reactions of the antiphospholipid a…

Anti-thyroid antibodies, parietal cell antibodies and tissue transglutaminase antibodies in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease.

INTRODUCTION: The co-existence of tissue-specific autoantibodies in autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD) is well established. The published prevalence of anti-parietal cell antibodies (PC-Ab) is 20-25%, and that of celiac antibodies is 2-5%. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of PC-Ab and anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (tTG-Ab) in patients with ATD and to evaluate the correlation between anti-thyroid antibodies and the other antibodies. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The files of 120 Israeli Jews and Arabs with ATD were evaluated for anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (Tg-Ab), anti…

[Antikeratin antibodies: another specific antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis patients].

Sera from 107 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 120 patients with other rheumatic diseases and 60 blood donors were tested with indrect immunofluorescence on the middle third of Wistar rat oesophagus as a substrate for the presence of antikeratin antibodies (AKA). By labelling the stratum corneum and stratum spinosum with IgG antibodies, three patterns of reaction were distinguished. Among them, only one pattern which showed an intense linear laminated fluorescence on stratum corneum and a weak fluorensence on stratum spinosum was valuable for the diagnosis of RA, with a specificity of …

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and anti-endothelial cell antibodies.

Anti-neutrophil cytosolic antibodies (ANCA) and anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) have been identified in a wide variety of disorders, but their pathophysiological role remains unclear. ANCA appear to be particularly associated with various forms of vasculitis including Wegener's granulomatosis. Kawasaki disease and microscopic polyarteritis. Cytoplasmic staining (cANCA) on indirect immunofluorescence is associated with extrarenal disease and a perinuclear pattern (pANCA) with renal limited disease. The cANCA antigen appears to be proteinase 3 and that for pANCA myeloperoxidase. AECA hav…

[Assay principles of antiphospholipid antibodies and heterogeneity of the antibodies].

The antiphospholipid syndrome(APS) is characterized by predominant clinical features of venous and arterial thrombosis and recurrent pregnancy loss accompanied by antiphospholipid antibodies(aPL) such as anticardiolipin antibodies(aCL) and lupus anticoagulant(LA). In 1990, three individual research groups, including us, first reported that a 50 kD plasma cofactor is required for the binding of aCL to cardiolipin(CL) and now, beta 2-glycoprotein I(beta 2-GPI), which binds to anionic phospholipids(PLs), is widely believed to be the major antigen for aCL. It was also reported that epitopes for su…

Anti-idiotypic antibodies against the receptor antibodies in myasthenia gravis.

Anti-idiotypic antibodies were prepared against purified acetylcholine receptor antibodies from two patients with myasthenia gravis. The purified idiotypes did not cross-react. Reaction with idiotypes from other patients were found in 8% and 37%, respectively, which suggests that shared idiotypic specificities occur. The anti-idiotypic IgG fractions had no receptor-like activity and did not bind cholinergic ligands. Receptor antibodies from two mothers and their newborn children with neonatal myasthenia gravis showed marked differences in the reactions with an anti-idiotypic antibody. This sug…