Anthea Anantharajah, Roger A. Silvestrini, David Campbell, Suzanne Culican, Adrian Y.S. Lee, Ming Wei Lin
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Abstract
Antinuclear antibody (ANA) detection by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is instrumental in the evaluation of systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD). The dense fine speckled (DFS) ANA staining predominantly associates with anti-DFS70, an autoantibody that is thought to exclude the presence of SAD. However, the DFS pattern may mask the presence of other ANA patterns that may be clinically relevant. Our laboratory uses the HEp2010 substrate which contains both HEp2 and liver substates. The aim of this study was to determine whether negative liver nucleus immunofluorescence could exclude the presence of antibodies to extractable nuclear antigens (ENA) in sera with DFS-like patterns.
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Published by Elsevier from 2016
Pathology is the official journal of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). It is committed to publishing peer-reviewed, original articles related to the science of pathology in its broadest sense, including anatomical pathology, chemical pathology and biochemistry, cytopathology, experimental pathology, forensic pathology and morbid anatomy, genetics, haematology, immunology and immunopathology, microbiology and molecular pathology.