Antibodies to Guanosine Triphosphate Misidentified as Anti-Double-Stranded DNA Antibodies in a Patient with Antinuclear Antibody-Negative Lupus, Due to Buckling of Insolubilized Assay DNA

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1533-1538

  Ma, Chun Hung ^a   Hui, Joannie ^a   Tang, Janet Tsui Ying ^a   Leung, Danny Tze Ming ^a   Chui, Yiu Loon ^a   Fok, Tai Fai ^a   Lim, Pak Leong ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EPITOPE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA LUCILIAE; CYTOPLASM; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METHYLATION; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SERUM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHILD; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 2342555071     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20188     Document Type: Article

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