[Determination of medullasin levels for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis]

Rinsho Byori. 2002 Mar;50(3):308-12.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Medullasin levels in granulocytes of patients with neurological diseases and healthy volunteers were determined by the enzyme immunoassay using mouse monoclonal antibodies against human medullasin and o-phenylenediamine-H2O2 as the detection system of the enzyme activity. One hundred twenty-one out of 159 patients with multiple sclerosis (76.1%) showed positive results (above means of normals + 2SD) in this test, while only 16.9% (24/142) of patients with non-inflammatory neurological diseases had positive results. This enzyme immunoassay method for medullasin is considered to be an useful paraclinical test for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Female
  • Granulocytes / enzymology*
  • Humans
  • Immunoenzyme Techniques
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multiple Sclerosis / diagnosis*
  • Serine Endopeptidases / blood*

Substances

  • Serine Endopeptidases
  • medullasin