Simplified E-UFA test for multiple sclerosis (MS): Some sources of “false” results

✍ Scribed by E. J. Field; Greta Joyce

• Book ID: 104717739
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 420 KB
• Volume: 226
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-5354
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00313376

✦ Synopsis

A simple modification of the Erythrocyte-Unsaturated Fatty Acid (E-UFA) Test for Multiple Sclerosis is described, whereby well washed erythrocytes (RBC) are allowed to stand in Hanks medium 199, for about 21 days at 4 degrees C. The control-experimental difference in electrophoretic mobility of RBC rises to nearly 20%. Precautions in interpretation and wider implications of the SE-UFA test, recently uncovered, are briefly indicated.