Author(s)

Guillermo Valdivia Anda¹, Edgar Guillermo Valdivia Lara², Ana Cristina Calderón Uribe³, Alejandra Andrea Escobar Patiño³, Gloria Elena Lara Reyes³

¹Laboratorio de Patogenicidad Microbiana, Unidad de Investigación Multidisciplinaria FESC, UNAM, México City, México.
²Departamento de Patología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España.
³Laboratorio DIVeT^® Estado de México, México City, México.

Antinuclear antibodies are found in animals suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and some other diseases, their presence in the blood is determined by antinuclear antibody (ANA) test using indirect immunofluorescence (IF) with HEp2 cells as a substrate. In this work, an immunoperoxidase (IP) assay was developed to evaluate the ANAs in canine sera, using canine kidney cell lines (MDCK) and compared with a commercial immunofluorescence test on Hep2 cells for this system, a fluoresceinated anti-canine Ig antibody was standardized. The study was performed on 50 sera from dogs submitted to the laboratory with different clinical diagnoses of autoimmune-associated diseases. The procedures on both cells were unified to perform comparisons of the reactions, direct sera or at different dilutions were added to a monolayer of permeabilized MDCK cells, followed by a peroxidized anti-canine IgG conjugate, and a substrate for the IP reaction. The same sera were tested on the commercial IF assay on Hep2 cell system. In 22/50 cases, the presence of LE cells in peripheral blood was determined. A high correlation was found in the detection of antinuclear antibodies between both cell lines and techniques, however there were differences in the reaction patterns in the nucleus and cytoplasm between cell lines. The diffuse nuclear pattern observed in MDCK cells was more related to the presence of high percentages of LE cells in peripheral blood. The differences found in the results were possibly associated with the presence of homologous antigens between the MDCK cells and the dog. In addition, the methodology and standardization for the use and interpretation of a reference serum was developed to unify the interpretation criteria in the laboratory.

Antinuclear Antibodies, Immunoperoxidase in Marbin Darbin Canine Kidney (MDCK), SLE Associate Disease

Valdivia Anda, G. , Valdivia Lara, E. , Calderón Uribe, A. , Escobar Patiño, A. and Lara Reyes, G. (2023) Detection of Antinuclear Antibodies in Canine Serum by Immunoperoxidase in MDCK and Indirect Immunofluorescence in HEp2 Cells. Open Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 13, 41-52. doi: 10.4236/ojvm.2023.135005.