Anti-ryanodine receptor-positive acetylcholine receptor-negative myasthenia gravis: Evidence of impaired excitation-contraction coupling

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 294-295

  Imai, Tomihiro ^a   Tsuda, Emiko ^a   Toyoshima, Takanobu ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroaki ^b   Motomura, Masakatsu ^c   Shimohama, Shun ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RYANODINE RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; STEROIDS;

EID: 78751653759     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21887     Document Type: Letter

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