Rapsyn antibodies in myasthenia gravis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 516-521

  Agius, Mark A ^a   Zhu, Shan ^a   Kirvan, Christine A ^a   Schafer, Anne L ^a   Lin, Mike Y ^a   Fairclough, Robert H ^a   Oger, Joel J F ^b   Aziz, Tariq ^b   Aarli, Johan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; RAPSYN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ORGAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNAPSE; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

ANIMALIA; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA;

EID: 0031903236     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10972.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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