Product Name | Titin Antibody - ELISA |
Catalog-No. | EA601/48 |
Description | Enzyme Immuno Assay for the quantitative determination of anti-Titin antibodies in serum or plasma |
Format | 6x8 Determinations, single break apart wells |
Procedure | 100 µl 1:101 prediluted patient sera; performance within approximately 2 hours |
Clinical Fields | Neurology, Immunology, autoimmune diseases |
Diseases | Paraneoplastic myasthenia gravis, thymic epithelial tumor, thymic carcinoma |
Normal Value | First measurements with sera from patients with thymoma gave values between factor 2 to 4 ODsample/ODcalibrator |
Specificity | 95 % of the patients with epithelial and malignant thymoma |
Sensitivity | N/A |
Characteristics | Significantly more specific than the determination of antibodies against striated muscle by immunofluorescence - recombinant MGT30 peptide for antigen - reliable differentiation from thymic hyperplasia - simple and quick handling, incubation time 2 hours |