GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME;
MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY;
GALACTOCEREBROSIDE;
GANGLIOSIDE;
MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;
D O I:
10.1002/mus.880180407
中图分类号:
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
学科分类号:
摘要:
Four of 82 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and 1 of 12 with multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), who previously had had Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections, had serum antibody to galactocerebroside (Gal-C). Two patients with GBS without mycoplasma infection also had anti-Gal-C antibody, whereas none of the normal or the disease controls had it. As Gal-C is a major glycolipid antigen in myelin, anti-Gal-C antibody may function in the pathogenesis of autoimmune demyelinative neuropathies, Mycoplasma pneumoniae appears to be an important preceding infectious agent in autoimmune neuropathies with anti-Gal-C antibody. (C) 1995 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.