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ArticleAuto- immunity highlights2017

Chemiluminescent immunoassay technology: what does it change in autoantibody detection?

Luigi Cinquanta, Desré Ethel Fontana, Nicola Bizzaro

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Article in Auto- immunity highlights, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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106citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 271 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luigi CinquantaAutoimmunologia e Allergologia Diagnostica di Laboratorio, UOC di Patologia Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria "Scuola Medica Salernitana", OORR San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona, Salerno, Italy. luigi.cinquanta@alice.it.
Desré Ethel FontanaDipartimento di Medicina di Laboratorio e Istituto di Patologia Clinica, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Nicola BizzaroLaboratorio di Patologia Clinica, Ospedale San Antonio, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine, Tolmezzo, Italy.
Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia di Udine · ITOspedali Riuniti San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnostic technology is rapidly evolving, and over the last decade, substantial progress has been made even for the identification of antibodies, increasingly approaching this type of diagnostic to that of automated clinical chemistry laboratory. In this review, we describe the analytical and diagnostic characteristics of chemiluminescence technology in its strength and in its applicability for a more rapid and accurate diagnosis of autoimmune diseases. The wide dynamic range, greater than that of immunoenzymatic methods, the high sensitivity and specificity of the results expressed in quantitative form, the high degree of automation and the clinical implications related to the reduction in the turnaround time, and the ability to run a large number of antibody tests (even of different isotypes), directed towards large antigenic panels in random access mode, make this technology the most advanced in the clinical laboratory, with enormous repercussions on the workflow and on the autoimmunology laboratory organisation. Further improvements are expected in the coming years with the development of new analytical platforms such as the flow-injection chemiluminescent immunoassay, the two-dimensional resolution for chemiluminescence multiplex immunoassay and the magnetic nanoparticles chemiluminescence immunoassay, which will likely result in additional increases in the clinical efficacy of antibody tests.

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Autoimmune diseasesAutoimmunology laboratoryAutomationChemiluminescence

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PMID28647912
PMCPMC5483212
OpenAlexW2722513105

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