Patients with CLE who have specific patient characteristics may have lower treatment response than patients who do not have these characteristics.

For this purpose, a doctor may order anti-dsDNA, anti-Sm, Sjögren's antigens (SSA, SSB), Scl-70 antibodies, anti-centromere, anti-histone, and anti-RNP. The ANA blood test can seem complicated. The ...

Pattern formation is the developmental process by which cells acquire different identities, depending on their relative spatial positions within the embryo. Pattern formation ensures that tissues ...