title: [How I explore ... review of the principals of antibodies].
abstract: Auto-immune diseases represent the 3rd cause of morbidity after cardiovascular and oncologic diseases. They often occur in young subjects. Their presence is not synonymous of disease and must be associated to clinical signs to be pathological. However, their discovery can require a complement of investigations and the possibility of a follow-up because some auto-antibodies are predictive of disease. This paper is concerned with the main autoantibodies that can be picked out at the laboratory of immunology. Some technical explanations and INAMI rules are explained too.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chimie Médicale, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique. C.LeGoff@chu.ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Goff
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kaux
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chapelle
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lutteri
mesh_terms: D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007159:Immunologic Tests
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D015415:Biomarkers