Immunofluorescence in Clinical Immunology. A Primer and an Atlas
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Author(s): W. B. Storch
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN:  3764361824
Format: hardback
  231pp
Price: SFr 128
Review Date: December 21, 2000
Review: This translation from the German of Wulf Dorch's primer is a well-illustrated handbook suitable for every-day work in the laboratory, usable both as an introduction to the subject as well as a textbook. This edition is concerned not only with the detection methods that now form an essential and established part of diagnostic techniques, but also with the most recent research results such as the discovery of antibodies against Auerbach's plexus and against podocytes. Much attention is paid to diagnostic methods for use with auto-immune diseases. Modern technical procedures such as confocal laser-scanning-microscopy, and the newer fluorochrome reagents, now enable the simultaneous and sensitive detection of a range of substances in a unique way.