“…These effects, however, might be caused by aspecific immune mediators rather than specific disease related factors [128]. Specific antibodies to peripheral nerve myelin are present in a widely varying proportion of patients; the proportion depends on the test and the laboratory [74,94,102,119,127,134,150,174,181,183,184]. The antigen may be a glycolipid in the myelin but it has not yet been completely identified [94,95,75].…”