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Peripheral Neuropathy and VIth Nerve Palsy Related to Randall Disease Successfully Treated by High-Dose Melphalan, Autologous Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, and VIth Nerve Decompression Surgery

Case Reports in Medicine, 2010
Randall disease is an unusual cause of extraocular motor nerve (VI) palsy. A 35-year-old woman was hospitalized for sicca syndrome. The physical examination showed general weakness, weight loss, diplopia related to a left VIth nerve palsy, hypertrophy of
C. Foguem, P. Manckoundia, P. Pfitzenmeyer, J.-L. Dupond   +3 more
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Deletion of the immunoglobulin kappa chain intron enhancer abolishes kappa chain gene rearrangement in cis but not lambda chain gene rearrangement in trans. [PDF]

The EMBO Journal, 1993
Immunoglobulins (Ig) secreted from a plasma cell contain either kappa or lambda light chains, but not both. This phenomenon is termed isotypic kappa-lambda exclusion. While kappa-producing cells have their lambda chain genes in germline configuration, in most lambda-producing cells the kappa chain genes are either non-productively rearranged or deleted.
S, Takeda, Y R, Zou, H, Bluethmann, D, Kitamura, U, Muller, K, Rajewsky   +5 more
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Laboratory biomarkers for multiple sclerosis and their role in clinical practice

Neurologijos seminarai, 2023
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system (CNS) most commonly diagnosed in young adults. In recent decades, new treatments have emerged that have radically changed the prognosis and quality of life of these patients ...
I. Navickaitë, G. Žemgulytė, R. Balnytė   +2 more
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis: An Update [PDF]

, 2019
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with brain neurodegeneration. MS patients present heterogeneous clinical manifestations in which both genetic and environmental factors are involved ...
Bruna Lo Sasso, Chiara Bellia, Giulia Bivona, Luisa Agnello, Marcello Ciaccio   +4 more
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Assessment of Serum Free Light Chains as a Marker of Diabetic Nephropathy; A Cross-Sectional Study in the Kumasi Metropolis

Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 2022
AimsAlthough traditional tests such as serum urea, creatinine, and microalbuminuria have been widely employed in the diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy, their sensitivity and accuracy are limited because kidney damage precedes the excretion of these ...
Elizabeth Sorvor, Elizabeth Sorvor, William K. B. A. Owiredu, Perditer Okyere, Perditer Okyere, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Sampson Donkor, Richard Bannor, Richard Bannor, Felix B.K. Sorvor, Richard K.D. Ephraim   +10 more
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The active immunoglobulin kappa chain gene is packaged by non-ubiquitin-conjugated nucleosomes. [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1986
To elucidate the molecular features of active chromatin, we have mapped, by two-dimensional electrophoresis, the protein composition of nucleosomes that package the immunoglobulin kappa chain gene of mouse plasmacytoma cells. Nucleoprotein particles that possess the active kappa chain gene comigrate with bulk mononucleosomes that contain high mobility ...
S Y, Huang, M B, Barnard, M, Xu, S, Matsui, S M, Rose, W T, Garrard   +5 more
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Inhibition by small-molecule ligands of formation of amyloid fibrils of an immunoglobulin light chain variable domain. [PDF]

, 2015
Overproduction of immunoglobulin light chains leads to systemic amyloidosis, a lethal disease characterized by the formation of amyloid fibrils in patients' tissues. Excess light chains are in equilibrium between dimers and less stable monomers which can
Brumshtein, Boris, Cascio, Duilio, Eisenberg, David S, Esswein, Shannon R, Ly, Alan T, Phillips, Martin L, Salwinski, Lukasz, Sawaya, Michael R   +7 more
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Concordance rate between oligoclonal bands and the Kappa index in patients with suspected multiple sclerosis (MS)

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Background Oligoclonal bands (OCBs) and Kappa free light chains (FLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are sensitive markers of intrathecal immunoglobulin (Ig)G synthesis in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Renan Barros Domingues, Márcio Vega dos Santos, Daiane Salomão, Carlos Senne   +3 more
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Kappa Index versus CSF Oligoclonal Bands in Predicting Multiple Sclerosis and Infectious/Inflammatory CNS Disorders

Diagnostics, 2020
Background: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) kappa free light chains (KFLC) are gaining increasing interest as markers of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis. The main aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy (AUC) of the kappa index (CSF/serum ...
Diana Ferraro, Roberta Bedin, Patrizia Natali, Diego Franciotta, Krzysztof Smolik, Mario Santangelo, Paolo Immovilli, Valentina Camera, Francesca Vitetta, Matteo Gastaldi, Tommaso Trenti, Stefano Meletti, Patrizia Sola   +12 more
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Double recombination of a single immunoglobulin kappa-chain allele: implications for the mechanism of rearrangement. [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1985
DNA fragments containing immunoglobulin kappa-chain sequences from two different plasmacytomas (PC 3609 and PC 7043) were found by blot-hybridization studies to be dissociated from germ-line sequences on both the 3' and 5' ends. These fragments were cloned, sequenced, and found to contain the structural features of a product of two recombination events.
R M, Feddersen, B G, Van Ness
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