Autoimmune ganglionic blockade. A cause of autonomic failure. Focus on "experimental autoimmune autonomic neuropathy"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1377-1378

  Biaggioni, Italo ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLETHYLENE GLYCOL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TRIMETAPHAN;

ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FOOD INTAKE; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLION; MYDRIASIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH MOTILITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; NEURITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0141565307     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00601.2003     Document Type: Editorial

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