Rapid immunologic diagnosis of classic late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1676-1680

  Kurachi, Yukiko ^a,c   Oka, A ^a,d   Mizuguchi, M ^a,e   Ohkoshi, Y ^b   Sasaki, M ^b   Itoh, M ^a   Hayashi, M ^f   Goto, Y ^a   Takashima, S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Natl Ctr of Neurol and Psychiatry ^*

Author keywords

CLN2; Diagnosis; Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis; LINCL

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LIPOFUSCIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; LIPOFUSCINOSIS; LYMPHOBLAST; LYMPHOCYTE; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0034049175     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.54.8.1676     Document Type: Article

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