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JOURNAL OF NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY
卷 21, 期 3, 页码 168-172出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00041327-200109000-00003
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cancer; retinopathy; paraneoplastic; photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor; antibodies
Objectives: To report a novel antibody associated with paraneoplastic retinopathy and to characterize the retinal autoantigen. Methods: Immunohistochemistry of rat and human tissues was used to identify antiretinal antibodies. Serologic screening of a bovine retinal cDNA expression library was performed to clone the target antigen. Results: A 72-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of progressive visual loss, bilateral central scotomas, light flashes, and night blindness. Visual acuity was 20/40 OD and 20/30 OS. There was generalized loss of retinal pigment and narrow arterioles; discs were normal in appearance. The electroretinogram showed no response. Chest computed tomograph scan demonstrated a right lung mass: biopsy revealed poorly differentiated carcinoma. The patients' serum contained antibodies that immunolabeled nuclei of cells of the outer-and to a lesser extent, the inner-nuclear layer of the adult rat retina. No reactivity was identified with nonretinal adult human or rat tissues. Reactivity was seen in the developing rat embryo. Serologic screening of a bovine retinal library resulted in the isolation of three overlapping clones, encoding a protein highly homologous to the human photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor gene product. Conclusions: The target antigen of an antibody associated with paraneoplastic retinopathy is the photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor, a member of a conserved family of nuclear receptors involved in photoreceptor cell development or maintenance.
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