The service is run by the Immunology Laboratory at the Churchill Hospital in collaboration with the Neuroimmunology research group at the University of Oxford.
Neuroimmunology tests
To request a test, please complete our Neuroimmunology Request Card (Word).
Please do not email completed request forms as this is an insecure form of communication.
- Acetylcholine Receptor (anti-AChR; RIA) IgG
- Muscle Specific Kinase (MuSK) (anti-MuSK; RIA) IgG
- Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) (anti GAD; ELISA) IgG
- Voltage gated Ca2+ channel (anti-VGCC; RIA) IgG
- Voltage gated K+ channel (anti-VGKC; RIA) IgG
- Ganglioside GM1 (anti-GM1; ELISA) IgG and IgM (combined)
- Ganglioside GQ1b (anti-GQ1b; ELISA) IgG and IgM (combined)
- Markers for Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes Hu, Yo, Ri, Ma, Amphiphysin, CRMP5/CV2, Tr
- Myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG) (anti-MAG; ELISA) IgM
- Serum α3 ganglionic receptor, by RIA
- CSF Orexin levels
- Serum antibodies to clustered AChR and MuSK on cell lines (for detection of low affinity antibodies)
- Aquaporin-4 antibodies (NMO antibodies)
- LGI1 antibodies CASPR2 antibodies
- NMDA receptor antibodies
- GABAb receptor and AMPA receptor 1/2 antibodies
- Glycine Receptor antibodies
- Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibodies
