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See Latest ArticlesLack of detection of agonist activity by antibodies to platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha in a subset of normal and systemic sclerosis patient sera
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Loizos N et al. - Although approximately one-third of sera from scleroderma patients contained detectable autoantibodies to PDGFR, these antibodies were not specific to scleroderma, since they were also detected in a similar percentage of samples from normal subjects. PDGFR-alpha agonist activity was not demonstrated when purified Ig from these sera was tested in cell-based assays.
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