Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease with unknown etiology. Patients with PBC have antimitochondrial autoantibodies (AMA) and additionally 50% of them have antinuclear antibodies (ANA). A 15-amino acid fragment (DRKASPPSGLWSPAY) from the Cterminal part of the nuclear envelo
Target platelet antigens of autoantibodies in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis
β Scribed by S M Feistauer; E Penner; W R Mayr; S Panzer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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β¦ Synopsis
develop thrombocytopenia of various causes, e.g., decreased controls for the indirect and direct MAIPA assay, respectively, and production, increased turnover or splenic ''pooling.'' were obtained from healthy donors of blood group AB.
The specificity of the antibodies was further determined by the production of eluates from platelets coated with antibodies. Eluates were either produced from the patients autologous platelets or after Abbreviations: PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis; PAIgG, platelet-associated IgG; GP, glycoin vitro coating of donor platelets incubated with patients sera, as protein; MAIPA, monoclonal antibody-specific immobilization of platelet. described previously. 7 In brief, platelets (ΓΊ10 8 ) were resuspended in From the
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