title: Lack of serum neutralizing antibody against poliovirus in patients with juvenile distal spinal muscular atrophy of upper extremities.
abstract: Serum neutralizing antibodies for type 1, 2 and 3 poliovirus were studied in 15 Chinese patients in Taiwan with juvenile distal spinal muscular atrophy of the upper extremities and 15 age-matched normal subjects. Significantly lower serum antibody titers were found in the study group, suggesting that patients with this chronic focal form of acquired motor neuron disease are, to some degree, immunologically unresponsive to the neutralizing epitope of poliovirus.
authors.affiliation: Neurological Institute, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Chern
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009134:Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology*; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D017955:Poliovirus / Q000276:immunology*; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral