Neuronal acetylcholine receptor autoimmunity

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1132, Issue , 2008, Pages 124-128

  Vernino, Steven ^a  

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

Author keywords

Autonomic neuropathy; Gastrointestinal dysmotility; Orthostatic hypotension; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MIDODRINE; MINERALOCORTICOID; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC GANGLIONOPATHY; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PUPIL REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 45249092801     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1405.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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