Non-radioactive serological diagnosis of myasthenia gravis and clinical features of patients from Tianjin, China

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 71-76

  Yang, Li ^a,b   Maxwell, Susan ^a   Leite, M Isabel ^a   Waters, Patrick ^a   Clover, Linda ^a   Fan, Xin ^b   Zhang, Daqi ^b   Yang, Chunsheng ^b   Beeson, David ^a   Vincent, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor antibody; Clustered acetylcholine receptors; Muscle specific kinase antibody; Myasthenia gravis; Non radioactive assay

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL BASED ASSAY; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; THYMOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHINA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751569963     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.10.023     Document Type: Article

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