Thread: How rare is MG?
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Old 09-25-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by southblues View Post
It is probably either

1. Lack of money

2. Lack of interest

If scientists were interested, they would write up grants and try to do the research.

3. Lack of enough knowledge to even know where to start. If there were a good model such as a mouse that developed MG, then there might be something to work with.
1. why would that be different in MG?

2. actually scientists are interested and they do get grants, but this is not translated (for some reason) into the clinic. There seems to be a total disconnect between the academic interest in this illness and the clinical interest.

3. there is a good model. In fact there are quite a few interesting studies published in the last few years in mice on MuSK. Yet, 0 clinical studies.
Maybe (hopefully?) there is just a lag period and we will start seeing some soon?
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