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Snake venom neurotoxins and myasthenia gravis. Mitsuhiro OHTA 1 , Kiyoe OHTA 1 , Hiroshi NISHITANI 2 , Kyozo HAYASHI 3 1Clinical Research Center, Utano National Hospital 2Department of Neurology, Utano National Hospital 3Department of Molecular Biology, Gifu Pharmaceutical University pp.626-640
Published Date 1991/8/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431900163
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Snake venom is known to have many pharmacologic and enzymatic activities. By an isolation study of cobra and krait snake venom components, it has been proved that the main lethal effects of these snake venoms are due to the heat-stable low molecular polypeptides (Neurotoxin). Several neurotoxic components inhibit neuromuscular transmission by attacking different targets of neuromus-cular junction. Therefore neurotoxins have been utilized in pharmacological and biochemical studies of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) in the neuron and neuromuscular junction. Particularly, the use of the fish electric organs as a source of AChR and of 125I-labeled srake venom neurotoxin to identify AChR have made a great advance for the purificaion and characterization of AChR, and for the un-derstanding of the pathological mechanisms impairing neuromuscular transmission in myasthenia gravis (MG). Anti-AChR antibodies have been demonstratd to be the principal agent in the pathogenesis of MG, and their determination allows definite diagnoses of MG.


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