Original Approach for Automated Quantification of Antinuclear Autoantibodies by Indirect Immunofluorescence

Introduction. Indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is the gold standard method for the detection of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) which are essential markers for the diagnosis of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. For the discrimination of positive and negative samples, we propose here an original...

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Main Authors: Daniel Bertin, Noémie Jourde-Chiche, Pierre Bongrand, Nathalie Bardin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/182172