Guillain-Barre syndrome: a century of progress
Guillain-Barre syndrome: a century of progress
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DOI:
10.1038/nrneurol.2016.172
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发表时间:
2016-12-01
影响因子:
38.1
通讯作者:
Willison, Hugh J.
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作者:
Goodfellow, John A.;Willison, Hugh J.
In 1916, Guillain, Barre and Strohl reported on two cases of acute flaccid paralysis with high cerebrospinal fluid protein levels and normal cell counts novel findings that identified the disease we now know as Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS). 100 years on, we have made great progress with the clinical and pathological characterization of GBS. Early clinicopathological and animal studies indicated that GBS was an immune-mediated demyelinating disorder, and that severe GBS could result in secondary axonal injury; the current treatments of plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin, which were developed in the 1980s, are based on this premise. Subsequent work has, however, shown that primary axonal injury can be the underlying disease. The association of Campylobacter jejuni strains has led to confirmation that anti-ganglioside antibodies are pathogenic and that axonal GBS involves an antibody and complement-mediated disruption of nodes of Ranvier, neuromuscularjunctions and other neuronal and glial membranes. Now, ongoing clinical trials of the complement inhibitor eculizumab are the first targeted immunotherapy in GBS.