What is Myasthenia? A Basic Definition

myasthenia
     n 1: a chronic progressive disease
         characterized by chronic
          fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face
          and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at
          the neuromuscular junctions [syn: myasthenia
         gravis]
     2: any muscular weakness

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Tue Sep 30

• Temmler Gruppe: Myasthenia gravis

Mon Sep 29

• The Associated Press: Resetting immune system in bid to beat scleroderma: Studies here and in Europe are aiming to reset immunity for patients with severe scleroderma ? work that, if successful, could cast new light on numerous autoimmune diseases, from lupus to multiple sclerosis.

Wed Sep 24

• 1935 Prostigmin Demonstration for MG

Tue Sep 16

• Genetics of autoimmune myasthenia gravis: the mult...[J Autoimmun. 2005] - PubMed Result: The HLA complex plays a prominent role in predisposition to many autoimmune diseases. Thus far, the highly polymorphic class I and class II loci have been considered as the prime candidates to explain this role. There is nonetheless growing evidence that other closely linked HLA loci are also involved in autoimmune susceptibility . Their search, however, has been hampered by the often strong linkage disequilibria, i.e. the non-random association of alleles at linked loci, across the HLA complex. Here, we discuss recent work from our laboratory on the dissection of this emblematic genetic region in a model autoimmune disease, acquired myasthenia gravis (MG).

Sun Sep 14

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• LISTSERV 15.0 - OCULAR List at LISTS.ASU.EDU
• MG Overview

Thu Sep 11

• Autoimmune Medical News for September 2008

Sat Aug 23

• eMedicine - Myasthenia Gravis : Article by Aashit K Shah

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