Δ32 polymorphism of the chemokine receptor CCR5 in a patient with multifocal motor neuropathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 541-542

  Trebst, Corinna ^a   Heiken, Hans ^a   Schmidt, Reinhold E ^a   Windhagen, Anja ^a   Stangel, Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; CHEMOKINE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUTATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

CHEMOKINES; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; RECEPTORS, CCR5;

EID: 34047208769     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20744     Document Type: Letter

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