Elevated 14-3-3 protein and axonal loss in immunoglobulin-responsive, idiopathic acute transverse myelitis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-22

  Finsterer, J ^a   Voigtlander T ^b  

^a Neurological Hospital   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Nerve conduction studies; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spinal cord disease; Spinal cord infection; Spinal MRI; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN 14 3 3;

ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MYELITIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE LESION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYRADICULITIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; ADULT; ATROPHY; AXONS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0036890646     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(02)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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