Autoimmune Complement-fixation Reaction in 1,014 Patients

Thirty-eight Cases of the Guillain-Barre Syndrome: An Immunological Study

“…reaction and showed that liver and kidney preparations were the best antigens and that sera from cases of S.L.E., infective hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, and the paraproteinaemias had a high incidence of such antibodies, often to high titres. Many aspects of this work have been confirmed by Hackett et al (1960) and by Deicher et al (1960).…”

Occurrence of Complement-Fixing Antibodies Reactive With Normal Tissue Constituents in Normal and Disease States*

“…A very recent study has indicated also that human patients with bacterial infection do not generally develop elevated levels of tissue antibodies (25). Rabbits, inoculated intratesticularly with T. pallidum developed high Wassermann antibody titers but, unlike human patients with syphilis, developed only a very slight rise in titer against the antigens used in this study.…”

Serological Overlap Between Lupus Erythematosus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Thyroid Auto-immune Disease

“…agglutination test, using formolized sheep cells coated with thyroglobulin (Fulthorpe et al, 1961), and the precipitin test in agar. CA2 antibodies fail to react in these tests and can be detected only by the Coons technique, using frozen thyroid sections fixed in meth,cnol (Balfour et atl., 1961 (Gajdusek, 1958;Hackett et al, 1960). All sera giving positive C.F.T.…”