Anti-neuronal antibodies in acute pandysautonomia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-77

  Matsui, Naoko ^a   Mitsui, Takao ^a,b   Ohshima, Yasushi ^a   Yokoi, Kenji ^a   Kunishige, Makoto ^a   Yagi, Fumikazu ^a   Vernino, Steven ^c   Matsumoto, Toshio ^a   Kaji, Ryuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Yoshinogawa   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Acute pandysautonomia; Anti neuronal antibodies; Autonomic function tests; Autonomic neuropathy; Immunoblot analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; GANGLIOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ACUTE PANDYSAUTONOMIA; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PLASMAPHERESIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEURONS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 74549131613     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.2788     Document Type: Article

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