摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a method for diagnosis of a disease, wherein presence or absence of an anti-endothelin-receptor antibody is determined in a sample from a patient to be diagnosed more in particular an anti-endothelin-receptor- A antibody. The disease according to the invention is in particular selected from diabetes, preferably type I diabetes, graft rejection, pre-eclampsia, hypertension, vasculitis, collagenosis, Raynaud-Syndrom (Morbus Raynaud), and inflammatory rheu- matic disease and arteriosclerosis. The invention further relates to the use of an inhibitor of an anti-endothelin-receptor antibody or an inhibitor of an endothelin-receptor for the production of a medicament as well as a method for removing anti-endothelin-receptor antibodies from isolated blood by means of plasmapheresis.</p> |