The influence of naturally occurring heterophilic anti-immunoglobulin antibodies on direct measurement of serum proteins using sandwich ELISAs

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 71-80

  Hennig, Christian ^a   Rink, Lothar ^a   Fagin, Ursula ^a   Jabs, Wolfram J ^a   Kirchner, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossreaction; Cytokine measurement; ELISA; Heterophilic antibodies; Rheumatoid factor; Serum

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; BLOOD PROTEINS; CATTLE; CROSS REACTIONS; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GOATS; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERONS; MICE; RABBITS; RATS; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033974816     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00206-9     Document Type: Article

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