INOVA is proud of our scientific prowess which is made evident by our numerous publications in peer reviewed scientfic journals. Please feel free to review the references below which are arranged by disease state.
Liver | Antiphospholipid Syndrome | Connective Tissue | Gastrointestinal | RA
Click this link to see the Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (CCP) Abstracts presented at the 2007 American College of Rheumatology meeting in Boston.
Silveira IG, Burlingame RW, von Muhlen CA, Bender AL, Staub HL. Anti-CCP antibodies have more diagnostic impact than rheumatoid factor (RF) in a population tested for RF. Clin Rheumatol. 2007 Apr 5; [Epub ahead of print].
Santiago M, Baron M, Miyachi K, Fritzler MJ, et al. A comparison of the frequency of antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptides using a third generation anti-CCP assay (CCP3) in systemic sclerosis, primary biliary cirrhosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Rheumatol. 2007 Jun 15; [Epub ahead of print].
Montano-Loza, A, Czaja, AJ, Carpenter, HA, Piette, AL, Murphy, D, Shums, Z, Burlingame, RW, Norman, GL. Frequency and Significance of Antibodies to Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide in Type 1 Autoimmune Hepatitis. Autoimmunity 2006; 39(4): 341-348. American Assn. For The Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) Annual Meeting Boston 2006.
Burlingame RW. and Williams RC Jr. Reactivity of IgG antibody with cyclic citrullinated peptide occurs through the F(ab)'2 part of the Ig molecule. J Rheumatol 32: 964-5, 2005.
Joossens, S, Daperno, M, Shums, Z, Van Steen K, Goeken, JA, Trapani, C, Norman, GL, Godefridis, G. Caessens, G, Pera, A, Pierik, M, Vermeire, S, Rugeerts, P, Bossuyt, X. Interassay and interobserver variability in the detection of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in patients with ulcerative colitis. Clin Chem; 2004 Aug; 50(8): 1422-5.
Binder, WL. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) and the diagnosis of systemic vasculitis. American Clinical Laboratory May 1992.