When you have myasthenia gravis, your immune system attacks the neuromuscular junction. That’s where nerve cells and muscle fibers meet. Everyone with MG has antibodies that block or damage ...

Myasthenia gravis patients show higher rates of dysarthria, dysphonia, dysphagia, and aspiration pneumonia compared to non-affected individuals. Despite high disorder rates, most myasthenia gravis ...

Ocular myasthenia gravis occurs when the immune system attacks the neuromuscular junction. The neuromuscular junction is a tiny space where neurotransmitter chemicals flow between a nerve and a ...

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Howard Jr, MD, professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains how nerve and muscle signaling in the neuromuscular junction go awry in myasthenia gravis.

(6) Myasthenia gravis is caused by a breakdown in the normal communication between nerves and muscles that occurs at the neuromuscular junction, where your nerve cells connect with the muscles ...

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Soliris inhibits proteins that activate the inflammatory response (complement proteins) that facilitate the attack on the ...

To review: Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune condition that affects the neuromuscular junction between the nerve and the muscle often referred to as the neuromuscular end plate. In myasthenia ...

Generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) affects most patients through a handful of well-characterized neuromuscular junction autoantibodies, but a wide range of differences among patients affect the ...