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Which tissue is afflicted by myasthenia gravis? What is the underlying cause.

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In myaeshemia gravis muscular tissue is affected. It is an autoimmune disease in which immune system starts destroying `Na^(+)` channel proteins of own muscle fibres when these start acting as self antigens.
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