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Clinical associations and characterisation of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies directed against bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein and azurocidin.
Rheumatology international - 1 Jan 2000
Cooper T, Savige J, Nassis L, Paspaliaris B, Neeson P, Neil J, Knight K R, Daskalakis M, Doery J C
Abstract excerpt
Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and azurocidin (AZ) are recently described target antigens of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). In this study, BPI-ANCA were demonstrated most often in patients with ulcerative colitis (36/92, 39%), Crohn's disease (17/66, 26%) and cystic fibrosis (11/14, 79%), but also in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (8/40, 20%), systemic lupus erythematosus...
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