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anti-Ta antibody
Etiology:
1) limbic encephalitis
2) brainstem dysfunction
3) associated malignancy
-> testicular cancer
Pathology:
Neuronal antigen:
-> neuronal nuclei & cytoplasm
-> Ta2
General
paraneoplastic autoantibody
References
Stuve O & Zamvil SS. In: Medical Immunology 10th edition
(2001), Section 3, Clinical Immunology. 38. Neurologic diseases.