Abstract
The detection of platelet-specific antibodies is of high clinical interest in diseases with immune thrombocytopenia. The glycoprotein-specific platelet-antigen capture (PAC)-assay developed in this study is especially suited to the differentiation of platelet-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) G subclasses and the determination of platelet-specific IgM in serum or on platelets. The problems with unspecific signals or low sensitivity usually seen with the detector antibodies available are effectively overcome, as unbound detector antibodies are removed at an early stage in the assay. We investigated 14 maternal alloantisera from cases of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAITP) and six sera from patients with autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (AITP). In NAITP sera, we found IgG1 alone in 57%, IgG1 + IgG3 in 21% and IgG1 + IgG2 in 14% of cases. One serum contained IgG1 + IgG2 + IgG3. In AITP, three out of the six sera contained IgG1 alone. One serum contained IgG1 + IgG2. One patient, with highly refractory AITP, had platelet-specific IgG1 + IgG2 + IgG3 in his serum. A patient with AITP in remission and normal platelet counts only showed platelet-bound IgG2. The detection of platelet-specific 'whole IgG' is possible too. However,...Continue Reading
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