Anti-GQ1b antibody syndrome: anti-ganglioside complex reactivity determines clinical spectrum

Fukami Y 1 , Wong AH 1 , Funakoshi K 2 , Safri AY 3 , Shahrizaila N 4 , Yuki N 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • 2 Department of Neurology, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
  • 3 Department of Neurology, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • 4 Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Eur J Neurol, 2016 Feb;23(2):320-6.
PMID: 26176883 DOI: 10.1111/ene.12769

Abstract

Anti-GQ1b antibodies have been found in patients with Miller Fisher syndrome as well as its related conditions. Our aim was to identify the mechanism by which autoantibodies produce various clinical presentations in 'anti-GQ1b antibody syndrome'.

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