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Autoimmune Disease Testing
Your immune system is your body's natural defense against infection and other foreign material. Before you can have a reaction to a particular substance, your immune system must first be sensitized to it. This happens in an earlier contact with the substance. Once sensitized, your body will react every time you have contact with that substance. Many substances can cause an allergic reaction. The most common are pollen, mold, animal dander, dust and dust mites, latex, medicines, insect stings and foods. Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney). The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response.
Private MD
Lab Services offers the following autoimmune disease-related tests:
| Anti-dsDNA (Double-Stranded) Antibiodies, EIA |
| Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies (ANCA) |
| Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) With Reflex |
| Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Test |
| Antiphosphatidylserine, IgG, IgM, IgA |
| Autoimmune Profile |
| Celiac Disease Antibody Profile |
| Celiac Disease Complete Antibody Profile |
| Cold Agglutinin Titer, Quantitative |
| Complement C3, Serum |
| Complement C4, Serum |
| Complement, Total (CH50) |
| Creatine, Serum |
| Cryoglobulin, Qualitative, Serum With Quantitative Reflex |
| Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (CCP), IgG Antibodies, ELISA |
| Cystic Fibrosis Expanded Profile |
| Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Acute Infection Antibodies Profile |
| Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Profile, Chronic, Active Infection |
| Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), Quantitative, PCR |
| Free Kappa and Lambda Light Chains Plus Ratio, Quantitative, Serum |
| Free Kappa and Lambda Light Chains Plus Ratio, Quantitative, Urine |
| Gliadin Antibody Profile, IgG, IgA, EIA |
| Lupus Anticoagulant With Reflex |
| Mononucleosis Test, Qualitative |
| Mononucleosis Test, Qualitative With Reflex to Titer on Positives |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis Test (RA Latex) |
| Scleroderma Profile |
| Sedimentation Rate, Westergren (ESR) |
| Sjogren Antibodies (Anti-SS-A/Anti-SS-B) |
| Soluble Liver Antigen (SLA) IgG Antibody (Autoimmune Hepatitis) |
| Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Antibody (VGCCA) |

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