Anti Chitobioside Antibody

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Etiology 3 Clinical-significance 4 More General Terms 5 Additional Terms 6 References

Introduction

• Antibody to chitobioside.

Etiology

• Crohn's disease

Clinical-significance

• associated with Crohn's disease
• 44% of anti- Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody-negative Crohn's disease positive for antilaminaribioside or antichitobioside
• in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, detection of 2 of 3 antibodies

• anti-laminaribioside
• anti- chitobioside
• anti- mannan is 99% specific for Crohn's disease

More General Terms

• serology

Additional Terms

• chitobioside
• Crohn's disease (terminal ileitis, regional enteritis, granulomatous enteritis, chronic cicatrizing enteritis)

References

1. Dotan I, Fishman S, Dgani Y, Schwartz M, Karban A, Lerner A, Weishauss O, Spector L, Shtevi A, Altstock RT, Dotan N, Halpern Z. Antibodies against laminaribioside and chitobioside are novel serologic markers in Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology. 2006 Aug;131(2):366-78. PMID: [1]

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