Antibodies to centromere antigens measured by an automated enzyme immunoassay.
Clin Chim Acta
; 328(1-2): 135-8, 2003 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-12559609
BACKGROUND: Anticentromere antibodies (ACA) are frequently observed in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon and in the CREST syndrome, a subclass of systemic sclerosis. Likewise, ACA are also found in other autoimmune and non-autoimmune diseases. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the clinical utility of the measurement of antibodies to the best characterized centromere antigen (CENP-B) protein by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses human recombinant CENP-B antigen and compare it with indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) on HEp-2 cells. METHODS: We have analyzed 128 sera samples from patients with the following diseases: systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, n = 53), mixed connective tissue disease (n = 1), primary Sjögren syndrome (n = 10), primary Raynaud's phenomenon (n = 10), primary systemic sclerosis (n = 7), polymyositis/dermatomyositis (n = 3), rheumatoid arthritis (n = 9), cutaneous lupus (n = 5), primary biliary cirrhosis (n = 9), chronic autoimmune hepatitis (n = 5) and ANA-positive non-autoimmune diseases (n = 16). RESULTS: The ELISA evaluated shows a good concordance with IFA, with the advantage of being an automatable quantitative technique. CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of anticentromere antibodies by this ELISA using human recombinant antigen is a useful alternative for the autoimmune laboratory checking for diseases associated with anticentromere antibodies.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Autoanticuerpos
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Autoantígenos
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Proteínas Cromosómicas no Histona
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Centrómero
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Proteínas de Unión al ADN
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
Clin Chim Acta
Año:
2003
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
España
Pais de publicación:
Países Bajos