Detection of pemphigus autoantibodies by IIF and ELISA tests in patients with pemphigus vulgaris and foliaceus and in healthy relatives

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Torzecka, Jolanta Dorota ^a   Narbutt, Joanna ^a   Sysa Jȩdrzejowska, Anna ^a   Waszczykowska, Elzbieta ^a   Lukamowicz, Jolanta ^b   Pas, Hendri H ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c Center for Blistering Diseases   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ELISA; Healthy relatives; IIF; Pemphigus foliaceus; Pemphigus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMOGLEIN 1 ANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN 3 ANTIBODY; PEMPHIGUS ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; RELATIVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; CADHERINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17944403884     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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