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SUBMITTER: Kang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291653 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Juan J Feng Dongyun D Yang Feng F Tian Xiaojia X Han Wenjuan W Jia Hongge H
Experimental and therapeutic medicine 20200505 1
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a group of autoimmune inflammatory muscle diseases. Rapamycin has been shown to ameliorate inflammation and improve muscle function in a mouse model of experimental autoimmune myositis (EAM). In the present study, the therapeutic effect of rapamycin was compared with methylprednisolone (MP) on EAM. Mice were injected with myosin for 10 days to induce EAM and were subsequently treated with rapamycin (1.5 mg/kg), MP (40 mg/kg) or placebo (DMSO) for 14 ...[more]