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Biomarkers of inclusion body myositis.

[inclusion body myositis]

Inclusion body myositis (IBM) is a poorly understood autoimmune and degenerative disorder of skeletal muscle. Here, pathophysiological and diagnostic biomarkers of IBM are reviewed.Muscle histopathological biomarkers have been successful in stimulating the study of IBM pathophysiology for over three decades. Their use as diagnostic biomarkers, in contrast, has significant limitations. A blood biomarker, autoantibodies against a 43-kDa muscle protein reported in 2011, has now been identified as targeting cytoplasmic 5' nucleotidase (cN1A; NT5C1A), a protein involved in nucleic acid metabolism. Diagnostic testing for these autoantibodies is of high diagnostic performance for IBM.Muscle biomarkers have suggested that IBM pathophysiology is linked to myonuclear degeneration and disordered nucleic acid metabolism. A blood biomarker has high diagnostic performance for IBM, and through identification of its target links, IBM autoimmunity and degeneration together, supporting the view that IBM pathophysiology includes abnormal nucleic acid metabolism.

Diseases presenting "skeletal muscle" symptom

  • cadasil
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • focal myositis
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • inclusion body myositis
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • pyomyositis
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma

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