Clinical utility of TSH receptor antibodies

G Barbesino, Y Tomer - The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
antibody was reported (3), and it demonstrated that the stimulating antibody bound to the
leucine-rich domain of the receptor. … indeed detect TRAb with high sensitivity and specificity. …

Antibodies for immunosensors a review

B Hock - Analytica Chimica Acta, 1997 - Elsevier
… affinity of the Abs used in the receptor unit. Since sensitivity is directly related to the affinity
of the ligand binding, reversibility excludes high sensitivity. Consequently, detection units for …

Highly variable sensitivity of five binding and two bio-assays for TSH-receptor antibodies

T Diana, C Wüster, M Kanitz, GJ Kahaly - Journal of endocrinological …, 2016 - Springer
… very high sensitivity of the cell-based bio-assays for the diagnosis of autoimmune induced
hyper- and hypothyroidism and clearly shows the detection of all samples at very low antibody

Second generation assay for thyrotropin receptor antibodies has superior diagnostic sensitivity for Graves' disease

S Costagliola, NG Morgenthaler… - The Journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… The better signal to noise ratio leads to a lower decision threshold for the cut-off and increases
the sensitivity, as shown by ROC plot analysis. For clinical purposes this high sensitivity

Assays for thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibodies employing different ligands and ligand partners may have similar sensitivity and specificity but are not …

IB Pedersen, A Handberg, N Knudsen, L Heickendorff… - Thyroid, 2010 - liebertpub.com
… In conclusion, both assays had a high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing GD. hTSHR-Ab
values were in average 2.5 times higher with the bTSH-rhTSHR assay compared with the …

Thyrotropin receptor antibodies—an overview

A Kotwal, M Stan - Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2018 - journals.lww.com
sensitivity and specificity. With the newer third generation TRAb assays, it is possible to
identify patients with high to very high … Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor autoantibody titer …

Validating antibodies to the cannabinoid CB2 receptor: antibody sensitivity is not evidence of antibody specificity

Y Marchalant, PW Brownjohn… - … of Histochemistry & …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… that the antibody under investigation has the sensitivity to detect CB2 protein when the
receptor is expressed in sufficient abundance along with evidence that the antibody also labels …

Detecting TSH-receptor antibodies with the recombinant TBII assay: technical and clinical evaluation

M Schott, J Feldkamp, C Bathan… - Hormone and …, 2000 - thieme-connect.com
… In summary, the proposed high sensitivity of the new TBII assay using human recombinant
TSH-R could be confirmed with the commercial product. This method offers a clear advantage …

Receptors, antibodies, and disease.

M Blecher - Clinical chemistry, 1984 - academic.oup.com
… anti-receptor antibody in the serum. ProteinA linkedto agarose beads may be substituted for
the second antibody … and hyperinsulinemia, but with normal sensitivity to exogenous insulin. …

TSH receptor antibodies: relevance & utility

GJ Kahaly, T Diana, PD Olivo - Endocrine Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
… show requisite clinical sensitivity and high specificity with … bioas-says might be more sensitive
for diagnosing subtle disease. … have demonstrated a higher sensitivity for detecting TSH-R-…