Rasmussen's encephalitis: A role for autoimmune cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-200

  Bauer, Jan ^a   Bien, Christian G ^a   Lassmann, Hans ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; GRANZYME B;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL DAMAGE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL; PATHOGENESIS; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0036220671     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200204000-00012     Document Type: Review

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