Familial occurrence of autoimmune myasthenia gravis with different antibody specificity

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2011-2013

  Lavrnic, D ^a,e   Nikolic, A ^a   De Baets, M ^b   Verschuuren, J ^c   Verduyn, W ^c   Losen, M ^b   Stojanovic, V ^a   Stevic, Z ^a   Hajdukovic, Lj ^d   Apostolski, S ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d INEP Inst Applic of Nucl Ener   (Yugoslavia)

^e Institute of Neurology Clinical Centre of Serbia   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETICS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 44949143187     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000312514.66164.88     Document Type: Article

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