Identification of neuromuscular medullary thymic epithelial cells in thymoma with myasthenia gravis

Abstract

Autoimmune diseases lead to antibodies mistakenly recognizing and attacking host cells as foreign invaders. One such disease is myasthenia gravis (MG), where the antibodies target neuromuscular-associated proteins, including the acetylcholine receptor. MG commonly occurs in patients with thymoma; however, the reasons for this remain unclear. Recently, a bioinformatic approach was undertaken to examine the relationship between these two diseases.