anti-ganglioside antibody
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Etiology
- associated with various forms of Guillain-Barre syndrome
- triggering agents include:
- Campylobacter jejuni (major)
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae (minor)
- celiac disease (rare)
Laboratory
Notes
- antibodies reactive with the core glycan of asialoganglioside (GA1), monosialoganglioside (GM1), & disialoganglioside (GD1a)[2]
More general terms
More specific terms
- anti-ganglioside GD1a antibody
- anti-ganglioside GD1b antibody
- anti-ganglioside GD2 antibody
- anti-ganglioside GD3 antibody
- anti-ganglioside GM1 Ab
- anti-ganglioside GM1b antibody
- anti-ganglioside GM2 antibody
- anti-ganglioside GM3 antibody
- anti-ganglioside GM4 antibody
- anti-ganglioside GQ1a antibody
- anti-ganglioside GQ1b antibody
References
- ↑ Wikipedia, Antiganglioside antibodies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-ganglioside_antibodies
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Avila JL, Rojas M, Avila A. Increase in asialoganglioside- and monosialoganglioside- reactive antibodies in chronic Chagas' disease patients. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1998 Mar;58(3):338-42. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9546415