Induction of myasthenia by immunization against muscle-specific kinase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1016-1024

  Shigemoto, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Kubo, Sachiho ^b   Maruyama, Naoki ^b   Hato, Naohito ^a   Yamada, Hiroyuki ^a   Jie, Chen ^a   Kobayashi, Naoto ^a   Mominoki, Katsumi ^c   Abe, Yasuhito ^a   Ueda, Norifumi ^a   Matsuda, Seiji ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE ENZYME; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLACCID PARALYSIS; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEURAMINIDASE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645521800     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI21545     Document Type: Article

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