title: Antiphospholipid antibody and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.
abstract: Over the past year, many reports have been published on a variety of clinical manifestations related to antiphospholipid antibodies. The low prevalence of anticardiolipin antibodies with the rare occurrence of thrombosis and a low rate of fetal loss in studies in Malaysia and China showed a potential role for local factors. A study of cross-reactive idiotype of the anticardiolipin antibody suggested that anticardiolipin antibodies are derived from a set of natural autoreactive clones. Regarding the pathogenic role of the antiphospholipid antibody, evidence has been presented that the epitopes formed between cardiolipin and beta 2 glycoprotein I are the targets of the antiphospholipid antibody. Complement activation, abnormalities of natural anticoagulants such as protein S deficiency, and genetic association with DR4, DR7, and DRw53 have also been studied.
authors.affiliation: Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugai
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017153:Antibodies, Anticardiolipin / Q000276:immunology; D017152:Antibodies, Antiphospholipid; D016736:Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology*; D001324:Autoantigens; D002417:Cattle; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051381:Rats; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D053482:beta 2-Glycoprotein I
chemical_list: D017153:Antibodies, Anticardiolipin; D017152:Antibodies, Antiphospholipid; D001324:Autoantigens; D006023:Glycoproteins; D053482:beta 2-Glycoprotein I