Alana Dasgupta, Anjali A Satoskar, Tibor Nadasdy, Cherri Bott, Zaid Abassi, Sergey V Brodsky
{"title":"Utility of different anti-IgG antibodies in recognition of punctate (powdery) podocyte staining by immunofluorescence in patients with diffuse podocyte foot process effacement.","authors":"Alana Dasgupta, Anjali A Satoskar, Tibor Nadasdy, Cherri Bott, Zaid Abassi, Sergey V Brodsky","doi":"10.29011/ctmdm.100111","DOIUrl":"10.29011/ctmdm.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Circulating anti-nephrin autoantibodies recently were recognized as a possible pathogenic factor in patients with steroid-resistant minimal change disease. In a kidney biopsy, these patients have punctate (\"powdery\") staining in the podocytes by immunofluorescence. Previously published data described such pattern of staining by using anti-IgG Dako antibody. In the routine practice, different laboratories use different anti-IgG antibodies from a variety of vendors. The aim of this work was to compare the ability to recognize the punctate staining in the podocyte by two different anti-IgG antibodies (Dako and Kent) that are in use in our routine renal pathology practice. Our data indicates that both anti-IgG antibodies recognize the punctate (\"powdery) staining in the podocytes in a subset of patients with minimal change disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":92624,"journal":{"name":"Current trends in medical diagnostic methods","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12687758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145727583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenneth Blum, Lisa Lott, David Siwicki, Lyle Fried, Mary Hauser, Thomas Simpatico, David Baron, Ahmed Howeedy, Rajendra D Badgaiyan
{"title":"Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS<sup>™</sup>) as a Predictor of Substance Use Disorder: Identifying Predisposition Not Diagnosis.","authors":"Kenneth Blum, Lisa Lott, David Siwicki, Lyle Fried, Mary Hauser, Thomas Simpatico, David Baron, Ahmed Howeedy, Rajendra D Badgaiyan","doi":"10.29011/CTMDM-101.100001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29011/CTMDM-101.100001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92624,"journal":{"name":"Current trends in medical diagnostic methods","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604806/pdf/nihms-1027158.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37392875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}