Arotec Lupus And Lupus Equipment & Supplies
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Manufactured by:AROTEC Diagnostics Limited based inWellington, NEW ZEALAND
Autoantibodies directed to negatively charged phospholipids, in particular cardiolipin, have been detected in the serum of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). APS is characterised by venous and arterial thrombosis, recurrent spontaneous abortions and thrombocytopenia. It is now known that a serum cofactor, β2-glycoprotein 1, ...
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 malignancies and ...
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 ...