Neuromuscular diseases are caused by problems in the way muscle cells, motor neurons, and peripheral cells interact. Researchers from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz ...

James F. Howard Jr, MD, professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains how nerve and muscle signaling in the neuromuscular junction go awry in myasthenia gravis.

The muscle transmembrane protein Vangl2 helps organize the development and maintenance of connections between muscles and motor neurons, a study concludes. A skeletal muscle isn’t much use without a ...

Scientists have so far identified around 800 different neuromuscular diseases. These conditions are caused by problems in the way muscle cells, motor neurons and peripheral cells interact. These ...

In a finding that may one day provide treatments for central nervous system diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), researchers in Japan may have discovered a way to smuggle molecules ...

Disclosure: Authors Bakooshli, Wang and Blau are named inventors on patent application “A method to restore neuromuscular junction morphology,” assigned to Stanford University. The study’s DOI is ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a recent study published in Biomaterials, a team of researchers led by Hesperos Chief Scientist Dr. J. Hickman established a significant finding to better understand ...

The new research could help identify ways to preserve neuromuscular junctions. Muscle-specific kinase (MuSK) is essential to the development of functional neuromuscular junctions, but scientists have ...

Frog neuromuscular junction fly-through. Shown in red is a large muscle fiber (diameter 50 micrometers) that is innervated by a myelinated axon colored in white. The interface between muscle and axon ...

Neurology encompasses a vast spectrum of disorders that affect the central and peripheral nervous systems, with neuromuscular diseases representing a significant subgroup. These disorders include ...