ASCA

Anti-saccharomyces Cerevisiae Antibodies - Crohn's Disease
... ASCA are consistently higher in frequency in Crohn's disease ... The ASCA antibodies are also more frequently found in familial Crohn's disease ... ASCA+ is a predictor for Crohn's disease with high specificity and positive predictive value (87% and 78% respectively) ...

History Of Dog Agility - History in The United States - ASCA and NADAC
... Meanwhile, in the early 1990s, the Australian Shepherd Club of America (ASCA) decided to provide its own sanctioning rules for agility ... Initially, ASCA considered mirroring USDAA's rules however, because each individual ASCA club would have had to become a member of USDAA, ASCA decided against this proposal ... In 1992, ASCA began working with Sharon Nelson of Idaho, who had been a member of the first US team in international agility competition, to develop a program based on the international ...

Advanced Satellite For Cosmology And Astrophysics - X-ray Astronomy Mission
... ASCA was the first X-ray astronomy mission to combine imaging capability with a broad pass band, good spectral resolution, and a large effective area ... properties, the primary scientific purpose of ASCA is the X-ray spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas especially the analysis of discrete features such as ... ASCA carried four large-area X-ray telescopes ...

Anti-saccharomyces Cerevisiae Antibodies - Anti-mannans
... yeast mannans are found at increased frequency in Crohn's disease and ASCA+ Crohn's tend to have lower low levels of mannan-binding lectin ... from other yeast, for example candida albicans, have found to cross react with ASCA which suggests that other yeast may induce ASCA associated diseases ... In ASCA+ Crohn's disease the serum level of this protein is lower ...