Emmanuel Mignot

Publication Details

• Elevated anti-streptococcal antibodies in patients with recent narcolepsy onset.

  Aran A, Lin L, Nevsimalova S, Plazzi G, Hong SC, Weiner K, Zeitzer J, Mignot E. Sleep. 2009; 32 (8): 979-83

  Narcolepsy-cataplexy has long been thought to have an autoimmune origin. Although susceptibility to narcolepsy, like many autoimmune conditions, is largely genetically determined, environmental factors are involved based on the high discordance rate (approximately 75%) of monozygotic twins. This study evaluated whether Streptococcus pyogenes and Helicobacter pylori infections are triggers for narcolepsy.

  PubMedID: 19725248