Protein from tick saliva studied for potential myasthenia gravis treatment

Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

Looking for a better treatment for the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis, researchers have found that a protein in tick saliva shows promise in limiting the severity of the disease in an animal model in a study published in the Annals of Neurology...

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