Reason found for muscle weakening disease myasthenia gravis

According to a new research published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, the researchers have found new cause for common muscle weakening disease. The researchers have found an antibody to a protein critical that enables the brain to talk to muscles this has further been identified as one of the reason for myasthenia gravis.Through this rigorous study they found out the antibody to LRP4 is the root cause of the most common disease affecting brain-muscle interaction. This is the reason that 10 per cent of the patients face symptoms, like drooping eyelids and generalized muscle weakness and in-spite of it their blood provides no clue of the cause. The co-researcher, Dr. Michael H. Rivner, MCG neurologist and Director of the Electrodiagnostic Medicine Laboratory explains, “That leaves us with only about 10 percent of patients who are double negative, which means patients lack antibodies to acetylcholine receptors and MuSK. This is pretty exciting because it is a new form of the disease.”