Announcements and amendments to testing

Resumption of Orexin/Hypocretin level testing service

Our Orexin level testing service is now operational. If you have stored CSF samples for Orexin level testing, please send them as soon as possible.

Please contact us if you have any queries.

Announcements

• Glomerular Basement Membrane (GBM) antibody testing and urgent ANCA testing service (pdf, 163 KB)
• Changes to the Ganglionic Acetylcholine receptor assay reference range and pricing (pdf, 180 KB)
  
• Withdrawal of the striated muscle indirect immunofluorescence assay (pdf, 171 KB)
• Changes to analyte stability for voltage gated calcium channel assay (pdf, 202 KB)
• Changes to Avian precipitins and Farmer's Lung precipitins testing (pdf, 208 KB)
• Increased turnaround times (pdf, 131 KB)
• User Feedback Survey Results 2021 (pdf, 176 KB)
• Change in the Myositis Immunoblot repertoire (pdf, 388 KB)
• Myasthenia Gravis testing update (pdf, 409 KB)
• Change of technique for the measurement of paraneoplastic antigens by Immunoblot (pdf, 314 KB)
• Changes to testing platforms at Oxford Immunology for Neuroimmunology assays (pdf, 284 KB)
• Pre-payment of testing for international and individual users (pdf, 202 KB)

Allergy and ANCA testing

• Allergy testing
• ANCA testing policy