Highlights
- •Also intracerebral tumors may be a trigger for anti-NMDAR antibodies.
- •Dysregulated lymphoma cells might produce anti-NMDAR antibodies.
- •Neuronal damage induced by neoplastic cells could lead to antibody synthesis.
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Abbreviations:
NMDAR (N-Methyl-d-aspartate receptor), LC (Lymphomatosis cerebri), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), DAT-SPECT (dopamine transporter imaging with single photon emission computed tomography), PET (positron emission tomography), CSF (Cerebrospinal fluid), CNS (Central Nervous System), EBER (Epstein-Barr virus latency-associated RNA), LGI1 (leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: January 14, 2019
Accepted:
January 11,
2019
Received in revised form:
January 7,
2019
Received:
December 7,
2018
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