autoantibody

Pathology: - antibody ellicited in response to immunologic stimulation that reacts or cross-reacts with a constituent tissue of the host itself - the autoantibody is said to react with an autoantigen

Specific

acetylcholine (nicotinic) receptor antibody acquired coagulation factor inhibitor anti-actin antibody anti-adrenal antibody anti-AMPA receptor antibody anti-basement membrane autoantibody anti-beta tubulin Ab anti-calcium channel antibody anti-cardiolipin antibody anti-CASPR2; anti-contactin-associated protein-like 2; anti-LG1 anti-CBir (flagellin) antibody anti-centromere antibody anti-centromere protein B antibody anti-complement C3d antibody anti-deoxyribonucleoprotein Ab anti-desmosome antibody anti-dopamine D2 receptor Ab anti-dsDNA anti-endomysial antibody anti-GABA B receptor anti-ganglioside antibody anti-gliadin antibody anti-glutamate decarboxylase antibody anti-hepatitis D antibody (hepatitis delta agent antibody, anti-HDV) anti-histone antibody anti-IgA antibody anti-intercalated disk Ab anti-intrinsic factor antibody (INTRINS) anti-islet cell antibody (ICA) anti-Jo-1 anti-keratin antibody anti-Ku antibody anti-liver antibody anti-liver cytosol antibody anti-mitochondrial antibody anti-myelin antibody anti-myelin basic protein Ab anti-myocardial antibody anti-neutrophil antibody anti-NMDA receptor antibody anti-parietal cell antibody (PCellAb) anti-perinuclear factor antibody anti-phospholipid antibody anti-RA33 anti-rheumatoid arthritis-associated antigen (RANA) anti-ribonucleaprotein (RNP) anti-ribosomal antibody anti-Scl-70 (anti-topoisomerase) anti-smooth muscle antibody (ASMA) anti-SSA/Ro anti-SSB/La anti-striational antibody (anti-striated muscle antibody) anti-thyroid peroxidase (microsomal) antibody anti-thyrotropin anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody antineuronal antibody antinuclear antibody (ANA) autoantibody neuromyelitis optica IgG (NMO-IgG) in serum carbonic anhydrase 6 antibody coagulation factor V autoantibody coagulation factor VII autoantibody coagulation factor VIII autoantibody (acquired hemophilia) coagulation factor X autoantibody complement C3 nephritic factor cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody; anti-citrulline antibody; anti-CCP diabetes-associated autoantibodies erythropoietin antibody growth hormone (somatotropin) antibody heparin-associated platelet antibody hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb) Herpes gestationis (HG) factor intercellular substance antibody islet antigen 2 (IA-2) antibody liver kidney microsomal Ab lupus anticoagulant muscle-specific tyrosine kinase receptor antibody paraneoplastic autoantibody platelet associated antibody pyruvate dehydrogenase antibody rheumatoid factor (RF) ribosomal antibody in body fluid steroid 21-hydroxylase antibody thyroglobulin antibody thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI) thyrotropin receptor antibody; TSH receptor antibody von Willebrand factor (VWF) autoantibody zinc transporter 8 autoantibody; ZnT8 autoantibody (ZnT8Ab)

General

immunoglobulin sign/symptom

Properties

COMPARTMENT: plasma SECRETED-BY: plasma cell

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.