Nodopathy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any peripheral neuropathy caused by changes restricted to the nodes of Ranvier and paranodal regions.

    "Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), the axonal motor variant of GBS, is the prototypic nodopathy; antibodies against GM1 ganglioside—an axolemmal nodal antigen—lead to disruption of sodium channels."

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"Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), the axonal motor variant of GBS, is the prototypic nodopathy; antibodies against GM1 ganglioside—an axolemmal nodal antigen—lead to disruption of sodium channels."

Etymology

From node + -o- + -pathy.

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