A new model linking intrathymic acetylcholine receptor expression and the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 998, Issue , 2003, Pages 257-265

  Levinson, Arnold I ^a,b   Zheng, Yi ^a   Gaulton, Glen ^a   Moore, Jonni ^a   Pletcher, C Hank ^a   Song, Decheng ^a   Wheatley, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor alpha subunit; Myasthenia gravis; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CELL MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0141727694     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1254.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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