Clinical features of autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy and the detection of subunit-specific autoantibodies to the ganglionic acetylcholine receptor in Japanese patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Nakane, Shunya ^a   Higuchi, Osamu ^a   Koga, Michiaki ^b   Kanda, Takashi ^b   Murata, Kenya ^c   Suzuki, Takashi ^d   Kurono, Hiroko ^e   Kunimoto, Masanari ^e   Kaida, Ken Ichi ^f   Mukaino, Akihiro ^g   Sakai, Waka ^a   Maeda, Yasuhiro ^a   Matsuo, Hidenori ^a  

^a Nagasaki Kawatana Medical Center   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Joetsu General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Kanagawa Prefecture   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^g NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3 ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA4 ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC GANGLIONOPATHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHANNELOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBRYO; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LUCIFERASE IMMUNOPRECIPITATION SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; IMMUNOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION ASSAY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925882715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118312     Document Type: Article

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