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Autoantibody Profiles in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

A paradigmatic feature of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) is the presence of multiple autoantibodies. The use of antibody profiles in the study of ARD therefore should be the best strategy for both diagnostic and classification purposes. To this end, systems using micronized components (protein...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bizzaro, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology (MJR) 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32185346
http://dx.doi.org/10.31138/mjr.30.2.86
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Sumario:A paradigmatic feature of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) is the presence of multiple autoantibodies. The use of antibody profiles in the study of ARD therefore should be the best strategy for both diagnostic and classification purposes. To this end, systems using micronized components (protein chips or arrays), consisting of solid phase-linked autoantigens capable of simultaneously detecting many autoantibodies at the same time, are particularly suitable for testing autoantibody profiles. In the near future, extended disease-specific autoantibody profiles consisting of dozens, if not hundreds, of autoantibodies will be able to define each patient’s autoantibody fingerprint and identify subclasses of patients with different prognostic characteristics and different therapeutic responses.