Clinical information at baseline was extracted from patient medical records, including age, sex, antinuclear antibodies (ANA) titer and fluorescence pattern, and other laboratory abnormalities.

Prior serologies including Hepatitis B Ag, Hepatitis C Ab, HIV and antinuclear antibody (ANA) were all negative ... and Immunofixation electrophoresis were of the normal pattern. A renal biopsy ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that destroys the nerves necessary for movement. About 30,000 people in the ...

[8] In addition, the sperm antigen, alone or after conjugation with an appropriate carrier protein, should be able to raise a high titer and a long-lasting antibody response both in circulation ...

Records examined demonstrated a genetic pattern of inheritance for RA ... manifest early in life in females generally have a clear antibody-mediated pathology. Those with increased incidence ...

In a cohort of 132 SSc patients enriched for GI symptoms, researchers found that 25% had high-titer anti-M3R antibodies. These patients were significantly more likely to have diffuse cutaneous disease ...

The human body has more tools in its arsenal than antibodies and a low level of those may not indicate your immunity has faded. Per the article, “Other crucial elements of your immune response include ...

antibodies (titer of 1:30), α1-subunit of the glycine receptor (GlyR) antibodies (titer of 1:10), acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies (>20 nmol/L), and titin antibodies (18.6 U/mL). Extensive ...

Statistical analysis showed that anti-CCP were not associated with the presence of antinuclear antibodies, raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, or erosions. In the control groups, none of the ...

Six patients treated with etanercept were studied for comparison. The analyses included antibodies against nuclear antigens (ANA), extractable nuclear antigens, double stranded (ds)DNA (by ELISA, IIF ...