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
Homoge – KSL: Kidney
 

Material
Pattern: Homogeneous – KSL
Substrate: Kidney

Description
Nuclei are stained homogenous in all organs (kidney as example)

Method
Indirect immunoflourescence method.