THYMIC ABNORMALITIES: ANTIGEN OR ANTIBODY? RESPONSE TO THYMECTOMY IN MY ASTHENIA GRAVIS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 786-804

  Penn, Audrey S ^a,b   Jaretzki, Alfred ^a,b   Wolff, Marianne ^a,b   Chang, Hai Won ^a,b   Tennyson, Virginia ^a,b  

^a Surgery and Pathology Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York ^*  (United States)

^b H Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOLOGY; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0019758259     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1981.tb33776.x     Document Type: Article

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