Antibodies and brain disease: a convergence of immunology and physiology

Betty Diamond; Bruce T Volpe

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030498

Antibodies and brain disease: a convergence of immunology and physiology

PLoS Med. 2006 Dec;3(12):e498. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030498.

Authors

Betty Diamond¹, Bruce T Volpe

Affiliation

¹ Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America. bd2137@columbia.edu

Abstract

The authors discuss a new study, by Emmer and colleagues, which attempted to test whether the presence of an antibody called anti-NMDAR correlates with brain abnormality in patients with SLE.

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MeSH terms

Autoantibodies / blood*
Brain Diseases / immunology*
Brain Diseases / physiopathology*
Humans
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / immunology
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / physiopathology
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / immunology

Substances

Autoantibodies
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate