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Arthritis Rheumatoid Equipment Supplied In Australasia
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Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
These autoantibodies are also often detected in sera from patients with Raynaud’s phenomenon and occasionally in other rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. ACA have also been reported to occur with high prevalence in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, in patients with ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
Autoantibodies staining the nuclei or the perinuclear zone of neutrophils by indirect immunofluorescence are referred to as pANCA whereas those giving a clear cytoplasmic fluorescence are referred to as cANCA. The antigen recognised by most pANCA sera has been identified as ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
AROTEC's Rheumatoid Factor (RF) antigen (Human IgG Fc fragment) is purified from human plasma and can be used to detect rheumatoid factors in patient sera. Rheumatoid factors are a subcategory of immunoglobulins that specifically bind to the Fc regions of IgG. Elevated concentrations of rheumatoid factors are often correlated with a more severe course of the disease. IgM RF may precede the onset ...
Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
The existence of autoantibodies to bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) was first described when it was noticed that 11 of 51 sera that were cANCA positive in immunofluorescence, recognised a 57 kDa antimicrobial cationic protein known as CAP57 in both ELISA and Western blot. It is now known that CAP57 and BPI are ...