Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy: IgG effects on ganglionic acetylcholine receptor current

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 1917-1921

  Wang, Z ^a   Low, P A ^b   Jordan, J ^d   Freeman, R ^c   Gibbons, C H ^c   Schroeder, C ^d   Sandroni, P ^b   Vernino, S ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC GANGLIONOPATHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MUSCLE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WHOLE CELL;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 34249779549     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000263185.30294.61     Document Type: Article

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