Acetylcholine receptor epitopes in ocular myasthenia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 309-319

  Kaminski, Henry J ^a,b,c  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031904125     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10937.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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