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Assays for myasthenia gravis

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7255349
This patent describes an improvement in a process for diagnosing myasthenia gravis. The process comprises the steps of preparing a complex of acetycholine receptor protein, toxin and a radioactive isotope, incubating the complex with a serum sample from a patient so as to join antibodies engendered in connection with myasthenia gravis to the complex, precipitating the complex joined with antibody with anti-immunoglobulin and measuring radioactivity, from the radioactive isotope, of the precipitated complex. The improvement is that the acetylcholine receptor protein is derived from cells of the TE671 Line.
Assignee:
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA
Patent Number(s):
US 4789640
OSTI ID:
7255349
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English