Acetylcholine receptors loss and postsynaptic damage in MuSK antibody-positive myasthenia gravis.

Muscle-specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK) antibodies are found in some patients with "seronegative" myasthenia gravis (MG), but how they cause myasthenic symptoms is not clear. We visualized acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and complement component 3 (C3) in muscle biopsies from 10 Japanese MG...

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Main Authors: Shiraishi, H, Motomura, M, Yoshimura, T, Fukudome, T, Fukuda, T, Nakao, Y, Tsujihata, M, Vincent, A, Eguchi, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2005