A study has shed new light on the mechanisms behind idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (myositis), a group of systemic ...

Her current research focuses on the mechanisms of muscle disease in scleroderma and developing novel therapeutics for refractory dermatomyositis. She has led investigations on JAK inhibitor ...

"Myositis is a more serious condition that results in muscle-cell inflammation and necrosis, a medical complication of the flu," Cardwell adds. "But myositis occurs only in a small percent of ...

The following is a summary of “A systematic review and meta-analysis of the response to placebo in clinical trials of ...

MHC class I expression is a characteristic histopathological feature of myositis, and seems to correlate with the presence of muscle weakness both in patients and in an animal model of myositis.

An acute necrotising myopathy is a distinct form of uncommon muscle disease characterised by the rapid advancement of ...

New research examining the skeletal muscle cells of patients with inclusion body myositis (IBM) has revealed that the nucleic acid-binding protein TDP-43, which is normally restricted to the ...