Autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase in patients with epilepsy are associated with low cortical GABA levels

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1898-1901

  Stagg, Charlotte J ^a,b   Lang, Bethan ^b,c   Best, Jonathan G ^a   McKnight, Karen ^c   Cavey, Ana ^b   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^a   Vincent, Angela ^b,c   Palace, Jacqueline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Epilepsy; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AUTOANTIBODY; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; CLOBAZAM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ETIRACETAM; FERROUS SULFATE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MELOXICAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; SUMATRIPTAN; THYROXINE; TOPIRAMATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPILEPSY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77956333492     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02644.x     Document Type: Article

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