Clinical significance of antinuclear antibodies: Comparison of detection with immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1612-1618

  Emlen, Woodruff ^a,b   O'Neill, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY;

ACCURACY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIGENS; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030869005     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780400910     Document Type: Article

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