Modulation of the anti-acetylcholine receptor response and experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis by recombinant fragments of the acetylcholine receptor

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 616-624

  Barchan, Dora ^a   Asher, Orna ^a   Tzartos, Socrates J ^b   Fuchs, Sara ^a   Souroujon, Miriam C ^a,c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis; Immunomodulation; Recombinant fragment

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPTOM;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENIC MODULATION; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0031937329     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199802)28:02<616::AID-IMMU616>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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