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Inclusion body myositis: therapeutic approaches. [PDF]
, 2012 The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases that include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM) and other less common myopathies.
Aggarwal, Rohit, Oddis, Chester V
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GNE myopathy: from clinics and genetics to pathology and research strategies
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2018 GNE myopathy is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive disease, which starts as a distal muscle weakness and ultimately leads to a wheelchair bound state.
Oksana Pogoryelova +4 more
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Functional muscle hypertrophy by increased insulin-like growth factor 1 does not require dysferlin. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionDysferlin loss-of-function mutations cause muscular dystrophy, accompanied by impaired membrane repair and muscle weakness. Growth promoting strategies including insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) could provide benefit but may cause ...
Barton, Elisabeth R +9 more
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Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome with Agrin Mutations
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2014 Investigators at Newcastle University, UK, and Hopitaux de Paris, France, report 5 patients from 3 unrelated families with a strikingly homogeneous clinical entity combining congenital myasthenia with distal muscle weakness and atrophy resembling a ...
J Gordon Millichap, John J Millichap
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New Aspects of Thromboangiitis obliterans (von Winiwarter-Buerger's Disease) [PDF]
, 1984 The existence of thromboangiitis obliterans as a clinical entity has been a matter of debate for many years. In contrast to other immunovasculitides there is no organ involvement while peripheral vessels are affected.
Berlit, Peter +3 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 BackgroundMissense VCP gene variants lead to a disruption in protein homeostasis causing a spectrum of progressive degenerative diseases. Myopathy is the most frequent manifestation characterized by slowly progressing weakness of proximal and distal limb
Greta Asadauskaitė +3 more
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Different electrophysiology patterns in GNE myopathy
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2022 Background GNE myopathy is a rare distal myopathy caused by mutations of the GNE gene. A few cases of GNE myopathy accompanied by neurogenic features of electrophysiology mimicking hereditary motor neuropathy were reported recently.
Xiangyi Liu +6 more
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Immune myopathies with perimysial pathology: Clinical and laboratory features [PDF]
, 2018 ObjectiveImmune myopathies with perimysial pathology (IMPP) have a combination of damage to perimysial connective tissue and muscle fiber necrosis, more prominent near the perimysium.
Bucelli, Robert C, Pestronk, Alan
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TIA1 Mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Promote Phase Separation and Alter Stress Granule Dynamics. [PDF]
, 2017 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are age-related neurodegenerative disorders with shared genetic etiologies and overlapping clinical and pathological features. Here we studied a novel ALS/FTD family and identified the
Annu, Kavya +41 more
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Laing Early-onset Distal Myopathy Due to the MYH7 Mutation in an Iranian Family
Journal of Pediatrics Review, 2020 Introduction: Laing early-onset distal myopathy is a disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance pattern caused by a mutation in the MYH7 gene that encodes the human β-myosin heavy chain.
Shabnam Ghazanfari-Sarabi +2 more
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