title: Rasmussen's encephalitis: an autoimmune disorder?
abstract: Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare progressive pediatric epileptic syndrome. Recent evidence from experimental animals and patients with the disease suggests an important role for both humoral- and cell-mediated immune mechanisms in the pathogenesis of this disease. The glutamate receptor subunit, GluR3, may be an important autoantigen in the disease.
authors.affiliation: The Duke Center for the Advanced Study of Epilepsy, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Andrews
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: McNamara
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017036:Epilepsia Partialis Continua / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans