MeDiCa specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of complete test kits and their individual components for in vitro diagnostics using indirect immuno-florescence (IIF). The specific auto-antibodies detected in human sera are:
- anti-nuclear (ANA)
- anti-nDNA (A-nDNA-A)
- anti-mitochondrial (AMA)
- anti-smooth muscle (ASMA)
- anti-parietal cell (APCA)
- anti-thyroid antibody (ATA)
- anti-endomysial antibodies (AEmA)
MeDiCa also produces test kits and components for research use to detect the following antibodies:
- anti -skeletal muscle (ASkMA)
- anti -pancreatic islet cell (APICA)
- anti - cardiac (ACA)
- anti -adrenal (AAdA)
- anti -glomerular basement membrane (AGBMA)
MeDiCa will also produce custom slides per customers specifications.
Please note that all test kit components, as well as the slides with custom substrates may be ordered separately.
Our substrates are microscopic slides containing cryostat cut sections of
one, two or three different animal organs or cell mono-layers in individual
wells surrounded by a highly hydrophobic mask. Examples of organ substrates
include liver, kidney and/or stomach section from rat,mouse or other animals.
Examples of cell mono-layers are Hep-2 cells or Crithidia luciliae.