Four anti-dsDNA antibody assays in relation to systemic lupus erythematosus disease specificity and activity

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 817-825

  Enocsson, Helena ^a   Sjöwall, Christopher ^a   Wirestam, Lina ^a   Dahle, Charlotte ^a   Kastbom, Alf ^a   Rönnelid, Johan ^b   Wetterö, Jonas ^a   Skogh, Thomas ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Double stranded DNA; Immunoassay; Inflammation; Rheumatic disease; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; RITUXIMAB; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SWEDEN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; IMMUNOLOGY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938529795     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.140677     Document Type: Article

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