Antimyenteric neuronal antibodies in scleroderma.
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Antimyenteric neuronal antibodies in scleroderma.
The pathogenesis of gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility in scleroderma is incompletely understood, although previous studies have proposed a neuropathic mechanism. We studied patients with scleroderma as compared with other connective tissue disease patients and normal controls for the presence of circulating antibodies to myenteric neurons. Serial dilutions of sera were overlaid on rat intestine...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci117395