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An "Autoimmune" Reaction Against Human Tissue Antigens in Certain Acute and Chronic DiseasesII. Clinical Correlations
IAN R. MACKAY, M.D.;
D. CARLETON GAJDUSEK, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;101(1):30-46.
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The serum from a proportion of patients suffering from acute viral hepatitis, active chronic hepatitis, and other parenchymatous diseases of the liver, disseminated lupus erythematosus (D. L. E.) and other "collagen diseases"; macroglobulinemia and multiple myeloma, and certain other conditions has been shown by one of us1,2 to contain antibody-like substances which fix complement in the presence of human tissue homogenates. This reaction has been designated autoimmune complement fixation (AICF). This serum activity could represent an adventitious chemical reaction not evoked by any antecedent antigenic stimuli, and it may be impossible in any given case to exclude this. Nevertheless, such an explanation has none of the heuristic value of the autoantibody hypothesis, and for the reasons given by one of us2 we have adopted the view that these substances are autoantibodies which have developed as a result of the pathological antigenicity of some human tissue component.
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Author Affiliations
Melbourne, Australia
From the Clinical Research Unit of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 24, 1957.
Aided by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Dr. Mackay); aided by a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. (Dr. Gajdusek).
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