Vincent A, Newsom-Davis J
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1985 Dec;48(12):1246-52. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.48.12.1246.
Anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody was undetectable in 26/153 (17%) sera from myasthenia gravis patients assayed by standard RIA using human acetylcholine receptor. Eight of these were found to be positive with a modified protocol using a mixture of normal and denervated AChR, reducing the proportion of "negative" sera to 12%. Many of these were from patients with a short history; two such patients later developed low positive values. Anti-AChR without clinical evidence of myasthenia was found in one of three monozygotic twins of myasthenia gravis patients, and in one of thirty other first degree relatives of a further 17 patients. Anti-AChR is a valuable and highly specific diagnostic test which, with the assay used here, is positive in about 88% of patients with clinical features of myasthenia gravis.
采用使用人乙酰胆碱受体的标准放射免疫分析法(RIA)检测重症肌无力患者的血清,在153例患者中有26例(17%)未检测到抗乙酰胆碱受体(AChR)抗体。其中8例采用改良方案检测呈阳性,该改良方案使用正常和失神经支配的AChR混合物,使“阴性”血清比例降至12%。这些患者中许多病程较短;其中两名患者后来出现低阳性值。在重症肌无力患者的三对单卵双胞胎中的一对,以及另外17例患者的30名其他一级亲属中的1名中,发现了无重症肌无力临床证据的抗AChR。抗AChR是一项有价值且高度特异的诊断检测,采用此处所用的检测方法,约88%具有重症肌无力临床特征的患者呈阳性。