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Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
Autoantibodies to centromeric proteins in the sera of patients with scleroderma were first described in 1980. Subsequent studies confirmed that anti-centromere antibodies (ACA) were most often found in patients with a limited form of systemic sclerosis previously referred to as CREST syndrome. These autoantibodies are also often detected in sera from patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon and ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
Autoantibodies staining the nuclei or the perinuclear zone of neutrophils by indirect immunofluorescence are referred to as pANCA whereas those giving a clear cytoplasmic fluorescence are referred to as cANCA. The antigen recognised by most pANCA sera has been identified as ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
AROTEC's Rheumatoid Factor (RF) antigen (Human IgG Fc fragment) is purified from human plasma and can be used to detect rheumatoid factors in patient sera. Rheumatoid factors are a subcategory of immunoglobulins that specifically bind to the Fc regions of IgG. Elevated concentrations of rheumatoid factors are often correlated with a more severe course of the disease. IgM RF may precede the onset ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
The existence of autoantibodies to bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) was first described when it was noticed that 11 of 51 sera that were cANCA positive in immunofluorescence, recognised a 57 kDa antimicrobial cationic protein known as CAP57 in both ELISA and Western blot. It is now known that CAP57 and BPI are ...