In myasthenia gravis, the receptors for acetylcholine at the muscle surface are destroyed or modulated by antibodies that prevent the normal reaction from occurring. The antibodies are produced by the ...
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Powerful visualization technologies offer new insight into understanding muscle contraction in humansA common autoimmune disease known as myasthenia gravis involves antibodies that mistakenly attack the muscle acetylcholine receptor, causing weak skeletal muscles. "This new level of insight into ...
Like Soliris and Ultomiris, Zilbrysq is approved for use in adults with gMG who are anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive. UCB also notes that unlike monoclonal antibody C5 ...
Early thymectomy is recommended for early-onset, generalized MG with thymic hyperplasia and acetylcholine receptor antibodies. Early thymectomy is recommended for thymoma MG. All thymus tissue ...
For part 3 of our interview with Katie Abouzahr, MD, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we discuss the favorable safety ...
Following up on Miwa’s work, lead author of the Neuron paper, Inés Ibañez-Tallon, used antibodies specific to lynx1 to reveal in mice that the protein was closely associated with the nicotinic ...
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Cryo-EM Reveals Structural Differences in Fetal and Adult Muscle ReceptorsA common autoimmune disease known as myasthenia gravis involves antibodies that mistakenly attack the muscle acetylcholine ...
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