13481 IUPAC Gold Book - acquired myasthenia gravis 10.1351/goldbook.13481 13481 current synonym: acquired myasthenia gravis 1 Autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness usually affecting ocular and oropharyngeal muscles due to an autoimmune attack against components of the neuromuscular junction (e.g., the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor). This disease may be idiopathic, paraneoplastic [thymic tumor or lung (Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome) tumor, etc.], or drug-induced (e.g., D-penicillamine). Autoimmune disease https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12919 Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13371 autoimmune https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12918 idiopathic https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13249 thymic https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13734 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1216 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13481/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13481/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13481/plain Citation: 'acquired myasthenia gravis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13481 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-30T01:04:59+00:00