Figure 3From: Autoantibodies to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors found in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis Detection of hmAchR M3 autoantibodies in sera of PBC patients by ELISA. Frequency of hmAchR M3-specific autoantibodies in sera of PBC patients (n = 50) and healthy controls (n = 16) were detected by ELISA: antibodies of the IgG- and IgM-type to the 25-mer peptide of the 2nd extracellular loop of the hmAchR M3. *p < 0.05 as compared to the healthy controls (Wilcoxon test).Back to article page