End-plate voltage-gated sodium channels are lost in clinical and experimental myasthenia gravis

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 370-379

  Ruff, Robert L ^a,c   Lennon, Vanda A ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANIMALS; COLLAGENASES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REFERENCE VALUES; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0031889914     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430315     Document Type: Article

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