RASMUSSENS ENCEPHALITIS - AN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER

Authors
ANDREWS PI MCNAMARA JO
Citation
Pi. Andrews et Jo. Mcnamara, RASMUSSENS ENCEPHALITIS - AN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER, Current opinion in neurology, 9(2), 1996, pp. 141-145
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Current opinion in neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
13507540
Volume
9
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
141 - 145
Database
ISI
SICI code
1350-7540(1996)9:2<141:RE-AAD>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare progressive pediatric epileptic syn drome. Recent evidence from experimental animals and patients with the disease suggests an important role for both humoral- and cell-mediate d immune mechanisms in the pathogenesis of this disease. The glutamate receptor subunit, GluR3, may be an important autoantigen in the disea se.