Antinuclear autoantibodies in health: autoimmunity is not a synonym of autoimmune disease

IA Pashnina, IM Krivolapova, TV Fedotkina… - Antibodies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The incidence of autoimmune diseases is increasing. Antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is a
critical tool for their diagnosis. However, ANA prevalence in healthy persons has increased …

ANA as an entry criterion for the classification of SLE

DS Pisetsky, X Bossuyt, PL Meroni - Autoimmunity reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disease with highly
variable clinical and immunological manifestations. In the classification of patients with this …

Clinical relevance of HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescent patterns: the International Consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP) perspective

J Damoiseaux, LEC Andrade, OG Carballo… - Annals of the …, 2019 - ard.bmj.com
The indirect immunofluorescence assay (IIFA) on HEp-2 cells is widely used for detection of
antinuclear antibodies (ANA). The dichotomous outcome, negative or positive, is integrated …

Report on the second International Consensus on ANA Pattern (ICAP) workshop in Dresden 2015

EKL Chan, J Damoiseaux, W de Melo Cruvinel… - Lupus, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The second meeting for the International Consensus on Antinuclear antibody (ANA) Pattern
(ICAP) was held on 22 September 2015, one day prior to the opening of the 12th Dresden …

Twenty years of research on the DFS70/LEDGF autoantibody-autoantigen system: many lessons learned but still many questions

GL Ortiz-Hernandez, ES Sanchez-Hernandez… - Autoimmunity …, 2020 - Springer
The discovery and initial characterization 20 years ago of antinuclear autoantibodies (ANAs)
presenting a dense fine speckled (DFS) nuclear pattern with strong staining of mitotic …

Antinuclear antibodies and cancer: a literature review

A Vlagea, S Falagan, G Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are a spectrum of autoantibodies targeted to various nuclear
and cytoplasmic components of the cells. They are very useful as serological markers for …

Anti-DFS70 antibodies: an update on our current understanding and their clinical usefulness

M Mahler, LE Andrade, CA Casiano… - Expert Review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Anti-DFS70 antibodies and their clinical associations remain an immunological
paradox. Unlike other antinuclear antibodies (ANA), there is a growing body of evidence that …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of antinuclear antibodies (ANA): National recommendations on behalf of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine

A Tešija Kuna, L Đerek, V Drvar, A Kozmar… - Biochemia …, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) represent a family of autoantibodies targeting
ubiquitous cellular constituents and are a hallmark of systemic inflammatory autoimmune …

High serum prevalence of autoreactive IgG antibodies against peripheral nerve structures in patients with neurological post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome

FA Arlt, A Breuer, E Trampenau, F Boesl… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Patients suffering from neurological symptoms after COVID-19 vaccination (post-
COVID-19 vaccination syndrome (PCVS)) have imposed an increasing challenge on …

Choosing wisely: review and commentary on anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) testing

MJ Fritzler - Autoimmunity reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Choosing Wisely®: Next Steps in Improving Healthcare Value is an initiative of the
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation. The driving forces for the Choosing …