Lower motor neuron disease in a patient with auto‐antibodies against Gal(β 1‐3)GalNAc in gangliosides GM 1 and GD 1b
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 40 (5) , 842
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.40.5.842
Abstract
We followed a patient with a lower motor neuron form of motor neuron disease whose neurologic disorder improved following immunotherapy. The patient did not have an M protein but did have IgM antibodies to ganglioside GM1 detectable at serum titers of 1:2,000 by ELISA. These antibodies were found only in the IgM fraction with lambda light chains and immunoreacted with GD1b and Gal (β 1-3)GalNAc.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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