Article
[Autoimmune mechanisms in the genesis of developmental abnormalities of the nervous system].
Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk - 1 Jan 2001
Kliushnik T P, Lideman R R
Abstract excerpt
The level of autoantibodies to nerve growth factor (NGF) was measured in the sera of infants with mental dysontogenesis and of patients with different mental diseases. The findings suggest that the excessive levels of NGF autoantibodies are responsible for nervous malformations that underlie some nervous and mental diseases and that the body has a certain capacity to normalize clinical and immunochemical...
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