Coexistent of muscle specific tyrosine kinase and acetylcholine receptor antibodies in a myasthenia gravis patient

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 668-669

  Suhail, Hamid ^a   Vivekanandhan, Subbiah ^a   Singh, Sumit ^a   Behari, Madhuri ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MUSK PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 77956390573     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.68687     Document Type: Letter

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