... clearly in keeping with the growing body of evi-dence demonstrating that nonimmune mechanisms areinvolved in weakness induction in myositis [15] and that thesemechanisms likely cause weakness by ... energy metabolism [9,10], possibly dueto disruption of local microcirculation [11], as well as cytokinedysfunction [12-14], are likely involved in weakness induction.More recently still, in ... protein; CyA, cyclosporin A; DM, dermatomyositis; EMG, electromyography; IIM, idiopathic inflammatory myositis; IU/l, international units per litre; MCTD, mixed connective tissue disease; MMF, mycophenolate...