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- Document 0714
- DOCN M9620714
- TI Antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) in autoimmune
- diseases: primary Sjogren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus,
- rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune thyroid diseases.
- DT 9602
- AU Coll J; Palazon J; Yazbeck H; Gutierrez J; Aubo C; Benito P; Jagiello P;
- Maldyk H; Marrugat J; Anglada J; et al; Department of Medicine, Hospital
- del Mar, Universidad Autonoma; de Barcelona, Spain.
- SO Clin Rheumatol. 1995 Jul;14(4):451-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96070334
- AB The aetiology of autoimmune diseases remains unknown. The relationship
- between virus, and more recently retrovirus, has been suggested with
- this group of diseases. Immunoblotting is a useful method for
- determining the presence of proteins coded by different retrovirus
- genes. Since the prevalence of these types of proteins in patients with
- primary Sjogren's syndrome (SS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE),
- rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and autoimmune thyroid diseases has not been
- fully established, the aim of this work was to determine the prevalence
- of antibodies to immunodeficiency human virus type 1 (HIV-1) proteins in
- these diseases and their possible relationship with the presence of
- anti-nuclear, anti-DNA, anti-SSA (Ro) and anti-SSB (La) autoantibodies.
- Antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) were studied in a
- group of 341 patients with autoimmune diseases (77 SS, 98 SLE, 75 RA, 91
- autoimmune thyroid diseases) and 126 blood donors as a control group. A
- Western blot was used to detect antibodies to HIV-1, and a double
- polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using nested primers in the gag and pol
- gene of HIV-1. Antinuclear antibodies, anti-DNA, anti-SSA (Ro) and
- anti-SSB (La) were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. At
- least one band was shown on immunoblotting in 26% of patients with
- autoimmune diseases and 35% of controls. The presence of antibodies to
- p55 or p68 proteins in patients with SS or SLE proved to be the only
- statistically significant difference between the other autoimmune
- diseases studied and the control group. These antibodies were not
- associated with autoantibodies ANA, DNA, SSA (Ro) or SSB (La).(ABSTRACT
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- DE Adult Aged Antibodies, Antinuclear/ANALYSIS Arthritis,
- Rheumatoid/IMMUNOLOGY Autoimmune Diseases/*IMMUNOLOGY Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Human HIV
- Antibodies/*ANALYSIS HIV-1/*IMMUNOLOGY Lupus Erythematosus,
- Systemic/IMMUNOLOGY Middle Age Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase
- Chain Reaction Sjogren's Syndrome/IMMUNOLOGY Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune/IMMUNOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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