Introduction
Autoimmune diseases
Autoantibodies - Introduction
Autoantibodies - Determination
 
Autoantibodies
Rheumatoid Factor
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
Specific Antibodies
Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
(ANCA)
Anti-phospholipid Antibodies
Anti-mitochondrial Antibodies (AMA)
Anti-endothelial Cell Antibodies (AECA)
Anti CCP antibodies
Antibodies against DNases
 
Quality Assurance
 
Reference ranges
 
Algorithm
ANA and incidence of diseases
Proposed stepwise diagnosis scheme
Positive Immunoflourescence -
Nucleoplasmic
Positive Immunoflourescence - Nucleolar
Positive Immunoflourescence -
Cytoplasmic
Type of autoimmune diseases
Conditions associated with antinuclear
antibodies (ANA)
 
Slide show
 
References
 
Collaborators
Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA)
Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA)
Perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (p-ANCA)
 

Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA) - Determination

Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA) - Sample
Serum
Specimen stable at 2-8°C for 1 week.


Methods:

Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA) - Indirect immunofluorescence assay

See Antinuclear Antibodies – Indirect immunofluorescence assay.


Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA) - Radioimmunoasay
See Appendix.


Cytoplasmic/classical anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (c-ANCA) - ELISA
See Antinuclear Antibodies - ELISA.

Material
Pattern: cANCA
Substrate: Ethanol fixed

Description
granular fluorescence in the cytoplasm of neutrophil granulocytes, typically accentuated between the ends of nuclear segments.

Method
Indirect immunoflourescence method.