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
Algorithm - Positive Immunfluoreszence - Nucleoplasmic
 
envelope (rim)
Chrom. Negative
Punctate
continous
Lamins A,B,C
Lamina Associated
Proteins (LAP) 1,2
Chronic liver diseases
Homogenous
Chrom. Positive
dsDNA
Histonie
SLE
Drug induced LE
Speckled
large
HnRNP
SLE
coarse
snRNP
SLE, MCtd
fine
SS-A/Ro
SS-B/La
Sjögren's Syndrome
SLE, Neonatal LE
PLEOMORPH
PCNA
SLE
discrete (punctate)
Centromere
Chrom. Positive
CREST S.
Raynaud's S.
p95
PBC
p80 coilin