Acetylcholine receptor antibodies in infants of mothers with myasthenia gravis
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 31 (8) , 1019
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.31.8.1019
Abstract
Antiacetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies were studied in 3 infants of mothers with generalized myasthenia gravis, using immunoprecipitation and concanavalin A Sepharose assays. Abnormal titers of anti-AChR antibodies were found in all 3 infants, but only 1 had symptoms of neonatal myasthenia gravis. The factor inducing transient neonatal myasthenia gravis may depend on the maternal level of anti-AChR antibody.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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