Sulfite oxidase–a new antigen system in cryptogenic liver disorders?
BE Preuß, F Altenberend, J Dengjel, N Motunova, S Stevanovic, R Klein · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2006 · Heft 01
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Zusammenfassung
In about 9% of patients with chronic liver disorders the etiology remains unknown (‘cryptogenic liver disease’), i.e. viral, metabolic or toxic processes are excluded, and typical autoimmune features as detected in autoimmune hepatitis or primary biliary cirrhosis such as antibodies to nuclei, actin, liver-pancreas antigen, liver-kidney microsomes or known mitochondrial proteins are absent. However, in former studies it was shown that some patients had antibodies against commercially available sulfite oxidase (SUOX) prepared from chicken liver (1). Since this enzyme fraction was not available any more we wanted…