OBJECTIVE Our goal was to evaluate the associations of antibodies (Abs) to glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) with Abs to cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) and HLA-DRB1 genotypes in Japanese patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS One hundred and eight patients with early RA (85 female, 23 male) who visited our clinic within 1 year of symptom onset were examined for anti-GPI ...

We have examined the role of interleukin (IL) 2 in the expression of cytotoxic cell proteinases (CCP) 1 and 2, as well as in the induction of major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-unrestricted cytotoxic activity in murine T cell cultures following stimulation with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody. A dramatic reduction in CCP-1 and CCP-2 gene expression and near absence of cytolytic activity was sh...

Our objective was to determine whether the presence of the human leukocyte antigen HLA-DRB1 locus is associated with production of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP Abs) and to what extent they are associated with increased susceptibility to and severity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Egyptian patients. Twenty-nine RA patients gave informed consent to participate in a case...

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis allows prompt initiation of antirheumatic therapy, which is associated with improved outcome. The use of IgM rheumatoid factor, the most widely used serologic test in assisting the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, is limited by low specificity. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test detecting antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP...

STATEMENT OF FINDINGS: An inception cohort of 238 patients having peripheral joint synovitis of less than 12 months duration was evaluated clinically and followed prospectively for 1 year to determine the clinical significance of a number of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated autoantibodies. Serum samples collected at the time of the initial evaluation were tested for rheumatoid factor (RF) a...

OBJECTIVES Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can both present with an erosive arthritis with the small joints of the hands affected. Therefore a serological marker would be useful to distinguish between these two diseases at onset. In this study anti-RA33 antibodies, which are found in patients with SLE and RA, and anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP),...

Background: Rheumatoid Factor (RF) occurs in 7090% of patients with established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (Anti-CCP) detection may be used to confirm the diagnosis of RA in patients with uncharacterized chronic inflammatory arthritis. This study is an attempt to evaluate the role of RF and anti-CCP in the diagnosis and prognosis of rheumatoid arthriti...

BACKGROUND The association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontitis is well established. Some children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) phenotypically resemble adults with RA, characterized by the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibodies. We sought to investigate an association between CCP-positive JIA and symptoms of periodontitis and antibodies to oral...

©2015 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to investigate the value of combined anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody and rheumatoid factor (RF) assays in the clinical diagnosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients and methods: Results of both anti-CCP and RF detection in 70 RA patients (13 males, 57 females; mea...

There is strong evidence that the determination of autoantibodies against filaggrine is a very useful tool for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (Anti-CCP)-ELISA appear to be the most efficient test among those available for the detection of antifilaggrine autoantibodies, as it has the best diagnostic accuracy for the diagnosis of RA. Furth...