Thursday, February 14, 2013

MDA5 Antibodies - from Matthew Cook

Does anyone offer testing for anti-MDA5 (melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5abs/ CADM 140kD)
by any chance?
Regards
Matthew

{For the interest of those unfamiliar with this antibody, a useful reference appears here:


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167687/  J Am Acad Dermatol. 2011 July; 65(1): 25–34. 

Article available here -https://sites.google.com/site/immgrpread/ under Dermatomyositis - MDA5}