Mayo Finds autoantibodies to smooth muscle nerve receptors

[Guest guest]

I am getting really confused so if you have heard this before, please

accept my apologies for repeating it.

The Mayo Clinic (Dr. Low) recently had a study published in which they

discovered autoantibodies to acetylcholine receptors on smooth muscle. This

is much like myasthenia gravis in which the signals to voluntary muscles

are blocked by autoantibodies, except that this affects non-voluntary

muscles like the heart.

My guess would be that sympathetic and parasympathetic (vagal) signals to

the heart would be blocked at some or all of the various points where the

nerves connect to the heart and that these connections might be intermittent.

These nerves connect to multiple points in the heart to stimulate or

depress cardiac activity. Suppose that the atrium got stimulated but the

ventricle didn't, for example.

Discussion?

Dale 'Big Al' R., Tucson, Arizona

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