Interferon causes no myasthenia in a seropositive patient with multiple sclerosis

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-278

  Shimizu, Hisao ^a   Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a   Kawahara, Makoto ^a   Hirano, Makito ^a   Furiya, Yoshiko ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti acetylcholine receptor antibody; Complications; Interferon; Multiple sclerosis; Myasthenia gravis; Seropositive

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATHOGENESIS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-BETA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 33847054363     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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