Excellent performance of the automated CLIFT evaluation by the “EUROPattern Suite”
Antibodies against double stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) are immunological indicators for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a severe rheumatic autoimmune disease.…
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Treatment of bullous pemphigoid: immune adsorber binds specific antibodies
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is considered the most frequent autoimmune blistering disease with an incidence of about 1.5 to 2 per 100,000 inhabitants and year in th…
Dromedaries on the Canary Islands, seropositive for anti-MERS-CoV antibodies, originate from Africa
In 2012, a new coronavirus was identified in the Middle East causing a respiratory syndrome in humans (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, MERS-CoV).…
Inflammatory bowel diseases: immune reaction against intestinal microbiota
Our body, especially the intestine, is colonized by a huge number of microbes – ten times more than the body’s own eukaryotic cells. This overcrowding, whic…
Autoantibody diagnostics in autoimmune nephropathies
Autoimmune-mediated damage to the kidneys can be triggered by autoantibodies directed against renal proteins, as in the case of primary membranous nephropathy (…
Autoimmunity in rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterised by chronic inflammation of the joints. Its development is stimulated by genetic and environment…