TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Antibodies, Antinuclear
KW - Antigen-Antibody Complex
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Phenotype
KW - Radioimmunoassay
AU - Furukawa F
AU - Sekita K
AU - Hamashima Y
AU - Ozaki M
AU - Imamura S
AB - <p>In 79 patients with leprosy a significant increase of anti-extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) antibodies and circulating immune complexes (CIC) was found. No correlation between CIC and anti-ENA antibodies was demonstrable. Since such a correlation is known from antinuclear antibodies and CIC in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, it appears likely that anti-ENA antibodies do not play a causative role in CIC-mediated pathogenesis of leprosy.</p>
BT - Archives of dermatological research
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6604502?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1983
DO - 10.1007/bf00510043
IS - 3
J2 - Arch. Dermatol. Res.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>In 79 patients with leprosy a significant increase of anti-extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) antibodies and circulating immune complexes (CIC) was found. No correlation between CIC and anti-ENA antibodies was demonstrable. Since such a correlation is known from antinuclear antibodies and CIC in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, it appears likely that anti-ENA antibodies do not play a causative role in CIC-mediated pathogenesis of leprosy.</p>
PY - 1983
SP - 144
EP - 6
T2 - Archives of dermatological research
TI - Evaluation of circulating immune complexes and antinuclear antibodies in Japanese patients with leprosy.
VL - 275
SN - 0340-3696
ER -