Immune complexes in myasthenia gravis
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 42 (7), 595-599
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.42.7.595
Abstract
Complement components were measured and immune complexes were sought in 75 patients with myasthenia gravis. Of them 34% had decreased concentrations of complement component C4, and 29% had circulating immune complexes. The greatest immunological abnormalities were found in patients with mild disease which supports recent immunoelectron microscopic findings.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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