Myasthenia gravis with antibodies to MuSK: Another step toward solving mystery?

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1783-1784

  Evoli, Amelia ^a,b   Lindstrom, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGRIN; AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN Q; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 4; MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE; MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 82955228965     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182377fa6     Document Type: Editorial

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