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    Immunofluorescence (IF) is a light microscopy-based technique that allows detection and localization of a wide variety of target biomolecules within a...
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    quantifying ANAs are indirect immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In immunofluorescence, the level of autoantibodies is...
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    A direct fluorescent antibody (DFA or dFA), also known as "direct immunofluorescence", is an antibody that has been tagged in a direct fluorescent antibody...
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  • diagnosed with the aid of immunofluorescence studies. Cutaneous conditions with positive direct or indirect immunofluorescence when using salt-split skin...
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    Blood tests such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunofluorescence are routinely performed to detect anti-dsDNA antibodies in diagnostic...
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    histopathology and direct immunofluorescence, indirect immunofluorescence and the ELISA test. Among all, direct immunofluorescence is the gold standard for...
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    specialized testing needs to be performed on biopsies, including immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, flow cytometry, and molecular-pathologic...
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    cerebellum with bound anti-GAD65 monoclonal antibodies (green), indirect immunofluorescence Specialty Neurology Symptoms muscular rigidity and trigger-induced...
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    Immunofluorescence micrograph of three cytotoxic T cells (outer three) surrounding a cancer cell. Lytic granules (red) are secreted at the contact site...
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    Immunofluorescence pattern of SS-A and SS-B antibodies. Produced using serum from a patient on HEp-20-10 cells with a FITC conjugate....
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    non-organ- and non-species-specific anti-organelle antibody detected by immunofluorescence: the mitochondrial antibody number 5. Clin Exp Immunol 31(3):357-366...
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    basement membrane without a hyperproliferation of the glomerular cells. Immunofluorescence demonstrates diffuse granular uptake of IgG. The basement membrane...
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    proliferation or crescentic glomerulonephritis may also be present. Immunofluorescence shows mesangial deposition of IgA often with C3 and properdin and...
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    Immunofluorescence image of HeLa cells grown in tissue culture and stained with antibody to actin in green, vimentin in red and DNA in blue...
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    immunohistochemistry, or when the stain is a fluorescent molecule, immunofluorescence. This technique has greatly increased the ability to identify categories...
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    assistant divides the specimen(s) for submission for light microscopy, immunofluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy. The pathologist will examine the...
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  • crescents will be normally observed. When these are subjected to immunofluorescence, three patterns can be observed: linear, granular and negative (pauci-immune)...
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    severity of portal hypertension. Main antinuclear antibody patterns on immunofluorescence A schematic representation of an antibody JB Imboden, DB Hellmann...
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    direct immunofluorescence microscopy (DIF) on a skin biopsy specimen, and (3) positive epidermal side staining by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy...
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  • become the primary diagnostic tool in the future.[citation needed] Immunofluorescence or immunoperoxidase assays are commonly used to detect whether a virus...
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    Main antinuclear antibody patterns on immunofluorescence. CREST syndrome typically displays the centrome pattern....
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    different molecule which binds the target of interest within the sample. Immunofluorescence is a technique which uses the highly specific binding of an antibody...
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    Inside the cell, the cadherins are linked to actin filaments. In immunofluorescence microscopy, the actin filament network appears as a thick border surrounding...
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    Berliner, Norman Jones and Hugh J Creech was the first to develop immunofluorescence in 1941. This led to the later development of immunohistochemistry...
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    done via antibody staining, hemadsorption using red blood cells, or immunofluorescence microscopy. Shell vial cultures, which can identify infection via...
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    Lupus band test is done upon skin biopsy, with direct immunofluorescence staining, in which, if positive, IgG and complement depositions are found at the...
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    antigen-antibody are used to diagnose infectious diseases, for example ELISA, immunofluorescence, Western blot, immunodiffusion, immunoelectrophoresis, and magnetic...
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    and the optical microscope. Developments in electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and the use of frozen tissue-sections have enhanced the detail that...
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    Three-Dimensional Imaging with Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Double Immunofluorescence". Modern Pathology. 14 (9): 854–861. doi:10.1038/modpathol.3880401...
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    systemic vasculitis, so called ANCA-associated vasculitides (AAV). Immunofluorescence (IF) on ethanol-fixed neutrophils is used to detect ANCA, although...
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