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120 pages Format: 12" x 9" Over 160 illustrations Front cover image: Surface view of neuromuscular junctions in sternothyroid muscle of the Chinese hamster, with permission of Junzo Desaki, Dept. of Anatomy, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan, from J of Neurocytology 10; 1981:101-110. |
Myasthenia
An Illustrated History John C. Keesey, M.D. Publishers Design Group Copyright © 2002 The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of California and John Carl Keesey, M.D.
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"History tells a story. This story is a fascinating one of our gradual understanding of what myasthenia gravis (MG) is, and what it means to many other similar conditions. The story stretches back to the beginnings of neurology when MG perplexed physicians then by its fluctuating course and its lack of visible pathology. And the story involves as well brilliant modern discoveries, some unexpected, which helped elucidate our basic understanding of many of MG's protean manifestations. In between is a story of tantalizing clues, unsolved puzzles, wild guesses, controversies, wrong turns and hard work contributed by talented people from many fields, including microscopy, botany, pharmacology, pathology, physiology, molecular biology, genetics, experimental neurology, internal medicine, and thoracic surgery. Many of the lessons these people learned about MG apply to the understanding of other more common autoimmune conditions such as juvenile diabetes, thyroid disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. They serve as well as examples of the give and take in the biological sciences that -- with luck -- gradually builds sufficient knowledge that it can be used for the successful treatment of patients with these conditions." |
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