Specific immunoadsorption of the autoantibodies from myasthenic patients using the extracellular domain of the human muscle acetylcholine receptor α-subunit. Development of an antigen-specific therapeutic strategy

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 183-191

  Psaridi Linardaki, Loukia ^a   Trakas, Nikos ^a   Mamalaki, Avgi ^a   Tzartos, Socrates J ^a,b  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Immunoadsorption; Immunotherapy; Myasthenia gravis; Neuroimmunology; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SEPHAROSE;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORBENT; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MUSCLE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; EPITOPES; EQUIPMENT REUSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PICHIA; PLASMA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344291863     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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