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anti-Car (recoverin) antibody
Etiology:
- cancer-associated retinopathy syndrome
- small cell lung carcinoma
- others
Pathology:
1) neuronal antigen: recoverin
2) photoreceptor degeneration
Laboratory:
- recoverin IgG Ab in serum/plasma
- cancer-associated retinopathy Ab in serum
Related
recoverin; cancer-associated retinopathy protein; protein CAR; visinin; frequinin; S-modulin (RCVRN, RCV1)
General
paraneoplastic autoantibody
References
Stuve O & Zamvil SS. In: Medical Immunology 10th edition
(2001), Section 3, Clinical Immunology. 38. Neurologic diseases.