Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) in saliva and cardiovascular activity were measured at rest and during mental arithmetic. Task difficulty was manipulated by presenting easy, hard, and impossible versions of the mental arithmetic task in counterbalanced order, while task novelty was operationalised as order of presentation (i.e. first, second, third). Mental arithmetic elicited significant inc...

Antibodies to nucleic acid antigens were measured in symptomatic and asymptomatic IgA-deficient individuals, non-IgA-deficient blood donors, and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). There was no increase in mean levels of antibodies to nucleic acid antigens (native or denatured DNA, transfer RNA) in the IgA-deficient group, although 4 of 100 IgA-deficient blood donors had persisten...

OBJECTIVE Here we compared analytical and clinical performance characteristics of two novel automated assay systems for the detection of celiac disease (CD) specific antibodies: QUANTA Flash (INOVA Diagnostics, Inc.) and EliA (Thermo Scientific). METHODS A total of 74 biopsy-proven CD patients (2 with IgA deficiency) and 138 controls were tested by both methods. RESULTS Sensitivities of QUA...

atopic dermatitis is one of the most common allergic diseases that almost always respond to conventional therapies with topical emollient, topical corticosteroids, systemic antihistamines and allergic abstinence. however few cases of atopic dermatitis with severe course do not respond to conventional therapies and high dose of intravenous immunoglobulin or cyclosporine are recommended for them....