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A New Thiopurine S-Methyltransferase Haplotype Associated With Intolerance to Azathioprine

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

A large cohort of myotonia congenita probands: novel mutations and a high-frequency mutation region in exons 4 and 5 of the CLCN1 gene

scientific article published on 6 June 2013

A longitudinal DTI and histological study of the spinal cord reveals early pathological alterations in G93A-SOD1 mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

scientific article published on 25 March 2017

A novel ABCC6 haplotype is associated with azathioprine drug response in myasthenia gravis.

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

A novel infection- and inflammation-associated molecular signature in peripheral blood of myasthenia gravis patients

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Aging-associated genes and let-7 microRNAs: a contribution to myogenic program dysregulation in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Allorecognition of human neural stem cells by peripheral blood lymphocytes despite low expression of MHC molecules: role of TGF-beta in modulating proliferation.

scientific article published on 28 July 2007

Altered miRNA expression is associated with neuronal fate in G93A-SOD1 ependymal stem progenitor cells.

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

Analysis of SjTREC levels in thymus from MG patients and normal children.

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Anti-AMPA GluA3 antibodies in Frontotemporal dementia: a new molecular target.

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Anti-MOG autoantibodies in Italian multiple sclerosis patients: specificity, sensitivity and clinical association

scientific article published in April 2004

Antibodies against GluR3 peptides are not specific for Rasmussen's encephalitis but are also present in epilepsy patients with severe, early onset disease and intractable seizures

scientific article published in October 2002

Autoimmune Encephalitis and CSF Anti-GluR3 Antibodies in an MS Patient after Alemtuzumab Treatment

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Autoimmune Frontotemporal Dementia: A New Nosological Entity?

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Autoimmune mechanisms in myasthenia gravis ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Autophagy, inflammation and innate immunity in inflammatory myopathies

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BDNF and its receptors in human myasthenic thymus: Implications for cell fate in thymic pathology

scientific article published on 13 June 2008

Central core disease and susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia in a single family

scientific article published on 28 February 2009

ClC-1 mutations in myotonia congenita patients: insights into molecular gating mechanisms and genotype-phenotype correlation.

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

Coexistence of CLCN1 and SCN4A mutations in one family suffering from myotonia.

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Comparison of Diffusion MRI Acquisition Protocols for the In Vivo Characterization of the Mouse Spinal Cord: Variability Analysis and Application to an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Model.

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Complete stable remission and autoantibody specificity in myasthenia gravis

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Correction: VAPB depletion alters neuritogenesis and phosphoinositide balance in motoneuron-like cells: relevance to VAPB-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (doi:10.1242/jcs.220061)

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Cytokine Profile in Striated Muscle Laminopathies: New Promising Biomarkers for Disease Prediction

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

DMD and BMD in the same family due to two distinct mutations

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Decorin and biglycan expression is differentially altered in several muscular dystrophies

scientific article published on 23 September 2005

Detection of poliovirus-infected macrophages in thymus of patients with myasthenia gravis.

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Dystrophin characterization in BMD patients: correlation of abnormal protein with clinical phenotype

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Elevated TGF β2 serum levels in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy: implications for myocyte and tenocyte differentiation and fibrogenic processes.

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Epstein-Barr virus in tumor-infiltrating B cells of myasthenia gravis thymoma: an innocent bystander or an autoimmunity mediator?

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Epstein-Barr virus persistence and reactivation in myasthenia gravis thymus

scientific article published in June 2010

Epstein‐barr virus in myasthenia gravis thymus: A matter of debate ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Etiology of myasthenia gravis: innate immunity signature in pathological thymus

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Exosomes and exosomal miRNAs from muscle-derived fibroblasts promote skeletal muscle fibrosis

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Expression of transforming growth factor-beta1 in thymus of myasthenia gravis patients: correlation with pathological abnormalities.

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FM19G11-Loaded Gold Nanoparticles Enhance the Proliferation and Self-Renewal of Ependymal Stem Progenitor Cells Derived from ALS Mice

scientific article published on 23 March 2019

Fibrogenic cytokines and extent of fibrosis in muscle of dogs with X-linked golden retriever muscular dystrophy

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Fibrosis and inflammation are greater in muscles of beta-sarcoglycan-null mouse than mdx mouse.

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Hind limb muscle atrophy precedes cerebral neuronal degeneration in G93A-SOD1 mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A longitudinal MRI study

scientific article published on 14 May 2011

Human adult skeletal muscle stem cells differentiate into cardiomyocyte phenotype in vitro.

scientific article published on 16 August 2007

Hyperexcitability in Cultured Cortical Neuron Networks from the G93A-SOD1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Model Mouse and its Molecular Correlates.

scientific article published on 7 August 2019

Identification of a gene expression signature in peripheral blood of multiple sclerosis patients treated with disease-modifying therapies

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Identification of previously unreported mutations in CHRNA1, CHRNE and RAPSN genes in three unrelated Italian patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

Immunomodulation of TGF-beta1 in mdx mouse inhibits connective tissue proliferation in diaphragm but increases inflammatory response: Implications for antifibrotic therapy

scientific article published on 27 April 2006

Increased expression of Toll-like receptors 7 and 9 in myasthenia gravis thymus characterized by active Epstein-Barr virus infection.

scientific article published on 12 December 2015

Increased toll-like receptor 4 expression in thymus of myasthenic patients with thymitis and thymic involution.

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Inflammation and epstein-barr virus infection are common features of myasthenia gravis thymus: possible roles in pathogenesis.

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Inflammatory myopathies and systemic disorders: a review of immunopathogenetic mechanisms and clinical features.

scientific article published on May 1997

Innate immunity in myasthenia gravis thymus: Pathogenic effects of Toll-like receptor 4 signaling on autoimmunity

scientific article published on 04 January 2014

Intrafamilial phenotypic variability in Andersen-Tawil syndrome: A diagnostic challenge in a potentially treatable condition

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Italian recommendations for diagnosis and management of congenital myasthenic syndromes

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Lack of mRNA and dystrophin expression in DMD patients three months after myoblast transfer

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Long-Term Follow-Up in Infantile-Onset Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Major histocompatibility complex class II molecule expression on muscle cells is regulated by differentiation: implications for the immunopathogenesis of muscle autoimmune diseases

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Marked phenotypic variability in two siblings with congenital myasthenic syndrome due to mutations in MUSK.

scientific article published on 12 October 2013

MicroRNA signature associated with treatment response in myasthenia gravis: A further step towards precision medicine

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Multidisciplinary study of a new ClC-1 mutation causing myotonia congenita: a paradigm to understand and treat ion channelopathies

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Myasthenia gravis (MG): epidemiological data and prognostic factors

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Myasthenia gravis remission and anti-AChR ab reduction after immunosuppressive and anti-neoplastic therapy in a patient with thymic Hodgkin’s disease

scientific article published on 29 September 2006

Myasthenia gravis: from autoantibodies to therapy

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

New phenotype and neonatal onset of sodium channel myotonia in a child with a novel mutation of SCN4A gene

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Novel phenotype associated with a mutation in the KCNA1(Kv1.1) gene

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Osteopontin is highly expressed in severely dystrophic muscle and seems to play a role in muscle regeneration and fibrosis.

scientific article published in December 2011

Pharmacogenetics of myotonic hNav1.4 sodium channel variants situated near the fast inactivation gate

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

Publisher Correction: Anti-AMPA GluA3 antibodies in Frontotemporal dementia: a new molecular target.

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Rasmussen’s encephalitis: update on pathogenesis and treatment

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Risk of arrhythmia in type I myotonic dystrophy: the role of clinical and genetic variables

scientific article published on 22 February 2009

T-Cell Infiltration in Polymyositis Is Characterized by Coexpression of Cytotoxic and T-Cell-Activating Cytokine Transcripts

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

T-Cell Receptor-CDR3 Sequences of Polymyositis Muscle-Infiltrating T-Lymphocytes Indicate a Conventional Antigen as Target

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Teaching Video NeuroImages: Clinical course of infantile ascending hereditary spastic paralysis

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

The Kinesin Superfamily Motor Protein KIF4 Is Associated With Immune Cell Activation in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

The empowerment of translational research: lessons from laminopathies.

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The expression of co-stimulatory and accessory molecules on cultured human muscle cells is not dependent on stimulus by pro-inflammatory cytokines: relevance for the pathogenesis of inflammatory myopathy

scientific article published in May 1998

The thymus in myasthenia gravis: Site of "innate autoimmunity"?

scientific article published on October 2011

Therapeutic effect of Anakinra in the relapsing chronic phase of febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome.

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis: Outcome, clinical and pathological correlations in 197 patients on a 20-year experience

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

Toll-like receptors 7 and 9 in myasthenia gravis thymus: amplifiers of autoimmunity?

scientific article published on 24 January 2018

Transcriptional and epigenetic analyses of the DMD locus reveal novel cis‑acting DNA elements that govern muscle dystrophin expression.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Transforming growth factor-β1 and fibrosis in congenital muscular dystrophies

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Type I interferon and Toll-like receptor expression characterizes inflammatory myopathies.

scientific article published in June 2011

Unusual expression of emerin in a patient with X-linked Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Up-regulation of Toll-like receptors 7 and 9 and its potential implications in the pathogenic mechanisms of LMNA-related myopathies

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Up-regulation of neural and cell cycle-related microRNAs in brain of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice at late disease stage

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VAPB depletion alters neuritogenesis and phosphoinositide balance in motoneuron-like cells: relevance to VAPB-linked amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

VAV1 and BAFF, via NFκB pathway, are genetic risk factors for myasthenia gravis

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Very small dystrophin molecule in a family with a mild form of Becker dystrophy

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Video-assisted thoracoscopic extended thymectomy and extended transsternal thymectomy (T-3b) in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis patients: remission after 6 years of follow-up

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

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