IgM deposits at nodes of ranvier in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, anti-GM1 antibodies, and multifocal motor conduction block

Santoro, Marie ; Thomas, Florian P. ; Fink, Matthew E. ; Lang, Dale J. ; Uncini, Antonio ; Wadia, Noshir H. ; Latov, Norman ; Hays, Arthur P. (1990) IgM deposits at nodes of ranvier in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, anti-GM1 antibodies, and multifocal motor conduction block Annals of Neurology, 28 (3). pp. 373-377. ISSN 0364-5134

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Abstract

We studied a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multifocal motor conduction block, and IgM anti-GM1 antibodies. A sural nerve biopsy demonstrated deposits of IgM at nodes of Ranvier by direct immunofluorescence. The deposits were granular and located in the nodal gap between adjacent myelin internodes, and in some instances, they extended along the surface of the paranodal myelin sheath. When injected into rat sciatic nerve, the serum IgM bound to the nodes of Ranvier, and the binding activity was removed by preincubation with GM1. These observations suggest that anti-GM1 antibodies may have caused motor dysfunction by binding to the nodal and paranodal regions of peripheral nerve.

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