A transfected human muscle cell line expressing the adult subtype of the human muscle acetylcholine receptor for diagnostic assays in myasthenia gravis

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1552-1555

  Beeson, D ^a   Jacobson, L ^a   Newsom Davis, J ^a   Vincent, A ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IODINE 125; MUSCLE ANTIGEN; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029730735     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.6.1552     Document Type: Article

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