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Myositis

Known as: Inflammatory Muscle Disease, inflammation of the skeletal muscle, Inflammatory Myopathies 
An inflammatory process affecting the skeletal muscles. Causes include infections, injuries, and autoimmune disorders.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
C-fiber spontaneous discharge evoked by chronic inflammation is suppressed by a long-term infusion of lidocaine yielding nanogram per milliliter plasma levels
Review
2000
Review
2000
MRI in inflammatory myopathies
Abstract Inflammatory myopathies encompass a group of acquired muscle disorders caused by infectious agents (bacteria, viruses… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Rhabdomyolysis after taking atorvastatin with gemfibrozil.
1997
1997
Apoptosis is not the mechanism of cell death of muscle fibers in human muscular dystrophies and inflammatory myopathies
Muscle biopsies from patients affected by muscular dystrophies and polymyositis were processed with the method of in situ… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Encephalitis, lymphoid tissue depletion and secondary diseases associated with bovine immunodeficiency virus in a dairy herd.
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Duration of virus persistence and its relationship to inflammation in the chronic phase of coxsackievirus B1-induced murine polymyositis.
Mice infected with the Tucson strain of coxsackievirus B1 (CVB1T) develop chronic T cell-mediated polymyositis that is manifest… 
1992
1992
Molecular analysis of the myoadenylate deaminase deficiencies
Myoadenylate deaminase (mAMPD) deficiency is a clinically heterogeneous metabolic myopathy consisting of primary (inherited) and… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Major histocompatibility complex genes in systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren's syndrome, and polymyositis.
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Humoral syndromes associated with cancer.
Summary Neoplasia of a tissue occasionally results in the production of a substance with hormonal activity similar to that… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
The first record of an outbreak of trichinosis in Africa south of the Sahara.
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