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nodopathy en · NOUN

Etymology

From node + -o- + -pathy.

Meanings

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. 2020, Michal Vytopil, Ted M. Burns, Michelle Mauermann, Jayashri Srinivasan, “Acquired Polyneuropathies”, in Jayashri Srinivasan, Claudia J. Chaves, Brian J. Scott, Juan E. Small, editors, Netter's Neurology, 3rd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 665:

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Relateds

paranodopathy