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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 35, 246-250, Copyright © 1989 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Measurement of autoimmune response against collagen types I, III, and IV by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and its application in infective endocarditis

ML De Buyzere, IK De Scheerder, JR Delanghe, JH Robbrecht, DL Clement and RJ Wieme
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, State University of Ghent, Belgium.

In these enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for determination of autoantibodies (IgG, IgM) against collagen type I (ACA I), III (ACA III), and IV (ACA IV), we use commercially available antigen preparations. Inhibition curves showed limited cross-reactivity between these different collagen preparations, the major interference being observed after addition of collagen type III in the ACA I procedures. Imprecision (CVs) for high- and low-titer samples ranged between 1.5% and 7.9% (within-run) and 5.5% and 12.7% (between-run) for ACA I, between 2.2-8.7% and 4.5-10.7% for ACA III, and between 1.3-5.9% and 7.4-11.6% for ACA IV. Significantly increased humoral immune response against collagen types I and III (P less than 0.001) could be demonstrated during the first month of infective endocarditis. In contrast, only borderline increases, however constant, of autoimmune response against basement-membrane collagen (ACA IV) were noticed during 90 days of follow-up.




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