Paraneoplastic cerebellar ataxia due to autoantibodies against a glutamate receptor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-27

  Sillevis Smitt, Peter ^c   Kinoshita, Ayae ^a,b   De Leeuw, Bertie ^d   Moll, Wiebe ^d   Coesmans, Michiel ^d   Jaarsma, Dick ^d   Henzen Logmans, Sonja ^d   Vecht, Charles ^d   De Zeeuw, Chris ^d   Sekiyama, Naohiro ^a   Nakanishi, Shigetada ^a   Shigemoto, Ryuichi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 0002461547     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200001063420104     Document Type: Article

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