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Nature Medicine  9, 823 - 825 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0703-823

Letting antibodies get to your head

Robert S Fujinami & Thayne L Sweeten

The authors are in the Department of Neurology, University of Utah, 30 North 1900 East, 3R330 SOM, Salt Lake City, Utah 84131-2305, USA. Robert.Fujinami@hsc.utah.edu

Autoantibodies to group A streptococcocal sugar moieties are now implicated in Sydenham chorea, a neuropsychiatric complication of rheumatic fever. These antibodies appear to disturb neuronal cell function by binding to glycolipids (pages 914−920).

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Mimicry and autoantibody-mediated neuronal cell signaling in Sydenham chorea
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Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS)
Molecular Psychiatry Original Article (30 Jul 2002)
Heat shock protein 90 antibodies in autism
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