ELAVL4 and small cell lung carcinoma: Due to the lack of an appropriate animal model to aid in defining the precise relationship of anti-HuD humoral immunity to the pathogenesis of paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis or paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy associated with HuD-positive malignances, enthusiasm for the development of an anti-HuD antigen specific immunotherapy for patients with SCLC has remained low [11].