neuromuscular junction diseases การใช้

• Neuromuscular junction diseases can be of autoimmune origin.
• Neuromuscular junction diseases can also be referred to as end plate diseases or disorders.
• Neuromuscular junction diseases are a result of a malfunction in one or more steps of the above pathway.
• Neuromuscular junction diseases in this category include snake venom poisoning, botulism, arthropod poisoning, organophosphates and hypermagnesemia . ( reference 13 ) Organophosphates are present in many insecticides and herbicides.
• The neuromuscular junction diseases present within this subset are myasthenia gravis, and Lambert-Eaton syndrome . ( reference 26 ) In each of these diseases, a receptor or other protein essential to normal function of the junction is targeted by antibodies in an autoimmune attack by the body.