Two new antinuclear antibodies: their relationship to the homogeneous immunofluorescent pattern

Standardisation of the quantitative determination of antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) with a homogeneous pattern.

The results of antinuclear antibody tests using the indirect immunofluorescence technique may be reported as a description of the pattern and the intensity of fluorescence obtained at a certain dilution. If quantitative results are required titration is necessary. Such titrations may vary greatly between different laboratories. The present study involving 26 laboratories shows an improvement of...

Antinuclear antibodies in psychiatric illness: their relationship to diagnosis and drug treatment.

Antinuclear antibodies occurred more often and in higher titres in psychiatric patients than in controls. Anti-DNA antibodies were not found. We suggest that antinuclear antibodies may be drug-induced and that lithium carbonate may have a particular tendency to produce this reaction.

Antinuclear Antibodies

knowledge of gene regulation, particularly in neoplastic cells, this deficit is striking. With our current understanding of chromosomal translocations, point mutations, and gene amplification in tumor cells, it is surprising to read that there is ". . . no difference between cancer and normal DNA . . ." (p. 130). The author spends a fair amount of time discussing possible mechanisms for the car...

Antinuclear antibodies: the medium is the message.

Antinuclear antibodies in systemic sclerosis