Welcome to ANApatterns.org, the official website for the International Consensus on Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Patterns (ICAP). ICAP was initiated as a workshop aiming to thoroughly discuss and to promote consensus regarding the richness in nuances of morphological patterns observed in the indirect immunofluorescence assay on HEp-2 cells. The ICAP initiative was implemented at the 12th International Workshop on Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity (IWAA) by members of the Autoantibody Standardization Committee (ASC), a subcommittee of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) Quality Assessment and Standardization Committee and affiliated with the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). The ICAP committee is operating as an ASC sub-committee.
Citation for this work: E.K.L. Chan, J. Damoiseaux, O.G. Carballo, K. Conrad, W. de Melo Cruvinel, P.L.C. Francescantonio, M.J. Fritzler, I. Garcia-De La Torre, M. Herold, T. Mimori, M. Satoh, C.A. von Mühlen, and L.E.C. Andrade. Report of the First International Consensus on Standardized Nomenclature of Antinuclear Antibody HEp-2 Cell Patterns (ICAP) 2014-2015 (Front. Immunol. 2015, Aug 20;6:412).
Representative images, based on pixel dimension, resolution, and size, were submitted online by ICAP members. For each pattern, between 2 to >10 images were submitted. Most patterns had average 5 to 8 images. More than ten ICAP members voted for the best three images representing each pattern and the top two images for each pattern are displayed on this web site. (For an introduction of the website with some graphic images, click here.)
| Tue, 07 Jan 20 |
Information from the ICAP clinical relevance publication (Damoiseaux et al, Ann Rheum Dis 78: 879-89, 2019) is now incorporated to the website.
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| Mon, 04 Mar 19 | The 5th ICAP Workshop will be held on September 9, 2019 in Dresden, one day prior to the 14th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies
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| Sat, 16 Feb 19 |
The complete translation draft to Russian goes online.
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Submit your question to ICAP. Only confirmed users can submit a question. If you are not registered, click here to start. Submitted questions will be routed to ICAP Coordinators Edward K. L. Chan (echan@ufl.edu) and Luis E. C. Andrade (luis.andrade@unifesp.br). Simple questions will be answered within 24 hours. Complex questions will be routed to several ICAP members either for a consensus or to provide different viewpoints and it may take 72 hours to 2 weeks for an answer. click here