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Antiamphiphysin Antibodies Are Associated With Various Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes and Tumors
Author(s) -
Jean Christophe Antoine,
Léna Absi,
Jérôme Honnorat,
Jean-Marc Boulesteix,
Thomas de Brouker,
Christophe Vial,
Margareth Butler,
Pietro De Camilli,
Daniel Michel
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
archives of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3687
pISSN - 0003-9942
DOI - 10.1001/archneur.56.2.172
Subject(s) - medicine , limbic encephalitis , pathology , autoantibody , lambert eaton myasthenic syndrome , encephalomyelitis , lung cancer , antibody , cancer , paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration , small cell carcinoma , immunology , multiple sclerosis
Antiamphiphysin antibodies react with a 128-kd protein found in synaptic vesicles. They were first described in patients with paraneoplastic stiff-man syndrome and breast cancer, but studies suggest that they can also occur in patients with other tumors and neurological disorders.

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