Clinicopathological study of primary biliary cirrhosis negative for antimitochondrial antibodies
โ Scribed by Yasuni Nakanuma; Kenichi Harada; Kyousuke Kaji; Shuichi Terasaki; Koichi Tsuneyama; Sekio Moteki; Judy Van de Water; Patrick S.C. Leung; M. Eric Gershwin
- Book ID
- 111250105
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 668 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0106-9543
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In our previous work, including analysis of more than 10,000 sera from control patients and patients with a variety of liver diseases, we have demonstrated that with the use of recombinant autoantigens, antimitochondrial autoantibodies (AMAs) are only found in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and tha
The antimitochondrial response in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is the most highly directed and specific self-reacting antibody in human immunopathology. Originally, antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) were detected by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and found in approximately 90% of well-docume