Detection of serum M2 anti-mitochondrial antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is potentially less specific than by immunofluorescence

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 304-307

  Patel, Dina ^a   Egner, W ^a   Gleeson, D ^a   Wild, G ^a   Ward, A ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY M2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL LINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RODENTIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0036257559     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0004563021902008     Document Type: Article

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