This scenario opens exciting new possibilities for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. In particular, the finding that acetylcholine-receptor antagonists have an antiproliferative effect ...
In myasthenia gravis, your body attacks its acetylcholine receptors. Myasthenia gravis is considered to be an autoimmune disorder. In an autoimmune disease, some of the body's antibodies (special ...
The Neuromuscular Disease Center has a long history of providing excellent clinical care and ... which travels through the short neuromuscular junction and results in the activation of muscle ...
Since nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are also expressed on immune cells ... we can proceed to explore whether prototoxin genes might be mutated in human disease. We will be able to obtain much more ...