Acetylcholine receptor α-subunit isoforms are differentially expressed in thymuses from myasthenic patients

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 341-348

  Andreetta, Francesca ^a   Baggi, Fulvio ^a   Antozzi, Carlo ^a   Torchiana, Elena ^a   Bernasconi, Pia ^a   Simoncini, Ornella ^a   Cornelio, Ferdinando ^a   Mantegazza, Renato ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; CELL LINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POLYMYOSITIS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031013078     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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