It includes diseases of the nervous, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems as well as skin and other connective tissues, eyes, blood and blood vessels. In all of these diseases, the underlying problem is similar - the body's immune system becomes misdirected, attacking the very organs it was designed to protect.
To aid in the diagnosis of these most poorly understood and recognised diseases as early as possible, Phadia, now Thermo Fisher Scientific, offers high quality blood tests for the detection of disease-specific autoantibodies of IgG, IgA, and IgM isotypes.