Objective
Antibodies against basement membrane's (BM) collagen (type IV) are formed in some severe autoimmune diseases affecting one of the main function of the kidney, the filtration of urine from the blood. This leads to the degradation of BM, and finally to the loss of the kidney. Most of the cases are fatal, if not treated appropriately. The diagnosis has earlier been based on ono-specific, indirect methods or on non-quantitative ELISA methods utlizing antigens isolated from bovine kidney. The prime proposer of this project has produced the antigenic domains of all six alpha chains of type IV collagen as human recombinatn proteins nearest to their native form. The binding of autoanti-bodies has especially been taken into consideration in downstream processing of the proteins, which have then been used to develop assays for detection of antibodies. These assays are supposed to be much more specific compared to assays which use antigens isolated from animal kidney. The aim of the proposed project is to demonstrate the superior usefulness of human recombinatn proteins in clinical diagnosis and follow-up of treatment autoimmune kidney BM diseases. To be able to correlate the specificity and amount of autoantibodies to the degree of the damage of the tissue (and threatening rejection) of the kidney, the assays will be used complementary with the assays developed by the second proposer SME of the project.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology autoimmune diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine nephrology kidney diseases
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90220 Oulu
Finland
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