Characterization of human anti-acetylcholine receptor monoclonal autoantibodies from the peripheral blood of a myasthenia gravis patient using combinatorial libraries

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 269-279

  Rey, Elena ^a   Zeidel, Maria ^b   Rhine, Candi ^b   Tami, Joe ^b   Krolick, Keith ^c   Fischbach, Michael ^b   Sanz, Iñaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Main immunogenic region; Monoclonal antibodies; Myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033846909     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clim.2000.4898     Document Type: Article

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