Metabotropic glutamate receptor type 1 autoimmunity
Clinical features and treatment outcomes
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- Received August 27, 2015
- Accepted in final form November 30, 2015
- First Published February 17, 2016.
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Author Disclosures
- A. Sebastian Lopez-Chiriboga, MD,
- Lars Komorowski, PhD,
- Tania Kümpfel, MD,
- Christian Probst, PhD,
- Shannon R. Hinson, PhD,
- Sean J. Pittock, MD and
- Andrew McKeon, MD
- A. Sebastian Lopez-Chiriboga, MD,
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- Lars Komorowski, PhD,
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Employee of EUROIMMUN AG.
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- Tania Kümpfel, MD,
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I have received travel expenses and personal compensations for lectures from Teva, Merck-Serono,Genzyme,Novartis Pharma and Biogen Idec
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- Christian Probst, PhD,
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Euroimmun, full-time employee
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Euroimmun
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- Shannon R. Hinson, PhD,
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- Sean J. Pittock, MD and
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Dr. Pittock and Mayo Clinic have a financial interest in patents (#12/678,350 filed 2010 and #12/573,942 filed 2008) that relate to functional AQP4/NMO-IgG assays and NMO-IgG as a cancer marker;
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Dr. Pittock has provided consultation to Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Medimmune and Chugai Pharma USA but has received no personal fees or personal compensation for these consulting activities. All compensation for consulting activities is paid directly to Mayo Clinic.
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Dr. Pittock has received a research grant from Alexion pharmaceuticals for his investigator-initiated study entitled
RO1 NS065829-01
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Guthy Jackson Charitable Foundation grant for NMO research
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- Andrew McKeon, MD
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Medimmune, Inc
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- From the Department of Neurology (A.S.L.-C.), Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; Institute of Experimental Immunology (L.K., C.P.), Euroimmun AG, Lubeck; Department of Neuroimmunology (T.K.), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; and Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (S.R.H., S.J.P., A.M.) and Neurology (S.J.P., A.M.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
- Correspondence to Dr. McKeon: mckeon.andrew{at}mayo.edu
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