Selective loss of Purkinje cells in a patient with anti-gliadin-antibody-positive autoimmune cerebellar ataxia

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nanri, Kazunori ^a   Shibuya, Makoto ^b   Taguchi, Takeshi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIIDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; GLIADIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PURKINJE CELL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOPSY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; GLIADIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 79551594758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-14     Document Type: Article

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