A step forward for stiff-person syndrome

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9468, 2005, Pages 1365-1367

  Burns, Ted M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPHIPHYSIN; AMPHIPHYSIN AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE MARKER; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOTE; OPSOCLONUS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 17144400312     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66349-0     Document Type: Note

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