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Marinos C. Dalakas is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a notable emphasis on Neurology. Within this broad area, their work spans several subfields including Neurology, Infectious Diseases, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Epidemiology.

Dalakas has contributed extensively to topics related to Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis, and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

The scientist has published in a variety of academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Neurology
  • Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
  • Neurotherapeutics
  • Nature Reviews Neurology

Recent notable papers by Dalakas include:

  • Complement in neurological disorders and emerging complement-targeted therapeutics, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome: The first documented COVID-19-triggered autoimmune neurologic disease, 2020, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • The importance of FcRn in neuro-immunotherapies: From IgG catabolism, FCGRT gene polymorphisms, IVIg dosing and efficiency to specific FcRn inhibitors, 2021, Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders

Dalakas collaborates frequently with other researchers. Key coauthors include:

  • Harry Alexopoulos
  • Maria Anagnostouli
  • Panos Stathopoulos
  • Maria Gontika
  • George P. Chrousos

Best Publications

  • Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis

    Marinos C Dalakas;Reinhard Hohlfeld

  • Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Inclusion-Body Myositis

    Marinos C. Dalakas

  • A Controlled Trial of High-Dose Intravenous Immune Globulin Infusions as Treatment for Dermatomyositis

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Isabel Illa;James M. Dambrosia;Shawke A. Soueidan

  • A new approach to the classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: myositis-specific autoantibodies define useful homogeneous patient groups.

    Lori A. Love;Richard L. Leff;David D. Fraser;Ira N. Targoff

  • Mitochondrial Myopathy Caused by Long-Term Zidovudine Therapy

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Isabel Illa;G.H. Pezeshkpour;Joseph P. Laukaitis

  • Mitochondrial toxicity of antiviral drugs.

    William Lewis;Marinos C. Dalakas

  • Inflammatory Muscle Diseases

    Marinos C. Dalakas

  • EULAR recommendations for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus with neuropsychiatric manifestations: report of a task force of the EULAR standing committee for clinical affairs

    G K Bertsias;J P A Ioannidis;M Aringer;E Bollen

  • Intravenous immune globulin (10% caprylate-chromatography purified) for the treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (ICE study): a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    Richard A C Hughes;Peter Donofrio;Vera Bril;Marinos C Dalakas

  • Mutations in either the essential or regulatory light chains of myosin are associated with a rare myopathy in human heart and skeletal muscle

    Karl Poetter;He Jiang;Shahin Hassanzadeh;Stephen R. Master

  • Randomized controlled trial of intravenous immunoglobulin versus oral prednisolone in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

    R Hughes;Peter Van den Bergh;S Bensa;H Willison

  • Depletion of muscle mitochondrial DNA in AIDS patients with zidovudine-induced myopathy

    E. Arnaudo;S. Shanske;S. DiMauro;E.A. Schon

  • Missense mutations in desmin associated with familial cardiac and skeletal myopathy

    Lev G. Goldfarb;Kye-Yoon Park;Larisa Cervenáková;Larisa Cervenáková;Svetlana Gorokhova

  • Desmin Myopathy, a Skeletal Myopathy with Cardiomyopathy Caused by Mutations in the Desmin Gene

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Kye-Yoon Park;Cristina Semino-Mora;Hee Suk Lee

  • High-dose intravenous immune globulin for stiff-person syndrome.

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Mavis Fujii;Mian Li;Bashar Lutfi

  • A long-term follow-up study of patients with post-poliomyelitis neuromuscular symptoms.

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Gregory Elder;Mark Hallett;John Ravits

  • Aseptic Meningitis Associated with High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy: Frequency and Risk Factors

    Elizabeth A. Sekul;Edward J. Cupler;Marinos C. Dalakas

  • High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin exerts its beneficial effect in patients with dermatomyositis by blocking endomysial deposition of activated complement fragments.

    M Basta;Marinos C Dalakas

  • Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Autoimmune Neuromuscular Diseases

    Marinos C. Dalakas

  • The clinical spectrum of anti-GAD antibody-positive patients with stiff-person syndrome.

    Marinos C. Dalakas;Mavis Fujii;Mian Li;Beverly McElroy

  • Inclusion body myositis and myopathies.

    Kumaraswamy Sivakumar;Marinos C. Dalakas

Frequent Co-Authors

Lev G. Goldfarb
Lev G. Goldfarb National Institutes of Health
Norman Latov
Norman Latov Cornell University
Athanasios G. Tzioufas
Athanasios G. Tzioufas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Richard H. Quarles
Richard H. Quarles National Institutes of Health
Richard A. C. Hughes
Richard A. C. Hughes University College London
William A. Gahl
William A. Gahl National Institutes of Health
Hans-Peter Hartung
Hans-Peter Hartung Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Hugh J. Willison
Hugh J. Willison University of Glasgow
Frederick W. Miller
Frederick W. Miller National Institutes of Health

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