Neuromuscular complications of connective tissue diseases.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we aimed to identify prognostic factors of ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE) and developed a scoring system to establish the prognosis. METHODS:We collected baseline clinical, electrophysiologic, and ultrasonographic data from 2 cohorts. The outcomes for all patients were determined on fol...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Beekman R,Zijlstra W,Visser LH

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masseter (MR) and blink reflexes (BL) were investigated in 51 patients with internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) due to multiple sclerosis (28) and lacunar infarction (23). The MR was abnormal in 20 of 23 cases with bilateral INO and in 21 of 28 with unilateral INO. The R1 component of the BL (BL-R1) was abnormal in 7 o...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hopf HC,Thömke F,Gutmann L

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Transitioning from adolescence to adulthood can be problematic for individuals with rare disabilities such as muscular dystrophy (MD). METHODS:We identified a cohort of 220 individuals with MD and 440 matched comparison individuals and measured emergency room (ER) and inpatient (IP) encounters for the yea...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mann JR,Royer JA,Mcdermott S,Hardin JW,Ozturk O,Street N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated interrater reliability of overall assessment of nerve root lesions by electrodiagnostic testing (EDX) in neonatal brachial plexus palsy (NBPP). METHODS:Two blinded, board-certified reviewers retrospectively reviewed de-identified EDX data from 37 infants with NBPP for 2005-2012. Only nerve...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Spires MC,Brown SM,Chang KW,Leonard JA,Yang LJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study contrasts the developmental patterns of expression of 2 subtypes of the voltage-dependent sodium channel in rat muscle that are differentiated by their immunoreactivity with monoclonal antibodies raised to the purified muscle sodium channel protein. One subtype is found in the transverse tubular (T) system ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Schotland DL,Fieles W,Barchi RL

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study causes of obturator neuropathy and to correlate them with outcome, we retrospectively studied patients seen at the Mayo Clinic electromyography (EMG) laboratory from 1975 through 1999 with a diagnosis of obturator neuropathy. Twenty-two patients with obturator neuropathy were identified. The clinical outcome ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sorenson EJ,Chen JJ,Daube JR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged exposure to hand-transmitted vibration can cause debilitating neural and vascular dysfunction in humans. It is unclear whether the pathophysiology involves simultaneous or sequential injury of arteries and nerves. The mechanism of vibration injury was investigated in a rat tail model, containing arteries and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Curry BD,Bain JL,Yan JG,Zhang LL,Yamaguchi M,Matloub HS,Riley DA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative assessment was made of the firing characteristics of repetitive axonal discharges encountered during microneurographic recordings from human peripheral nerves. Spontaneous activity was recorded from 16 single axons using tungsten microelectrodes inserted percutaneously into fascicles of the median or pe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Macefield VG

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hindlimb unloading (HU) results in oxidative stress, skeletal muscle atrophy, and increased damage upon reloading. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) protect against oxidative stress. However, it is unknown whether HSPs are depressed with long-term unloading (28 days) or reloading. We tested the hypotheses that long-term HU w...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lawler JM,Song W,Kwak HB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic and acute administration of epinephrine or related sympathomimetic agents are typically prescribed for the treatment of clinical disorders such as hypotension, anaphylactic and allergic reactions, and bronchial asthma. In addition to its effects on these infirmaties and on carbohydrate metabolism, epinephrine ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Williams JH,Barnes WS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potentials of rabbit masseter motor units (n = 42) were registered at different jaw angles to examine whether the shape of the action potential is related to length of muscle fibers in motor units and depends on the intramuscular location of the motor unit. Twitches were elicited by stimulating motoneurons in t...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Turkawski SJ,van Eijden TM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve guides seeded with Schwann cells (SCs) promote axonal regeneration in peripheral nerve lesions. We examined the applicability of bioluminescent imaging (BLI) for monitoring the fate of SCs in nerve guides after implantation. Rat SCs were transfected with the firefly luciferase (Fluc) gene and subsequently seeded...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ma MS,Van Dam G,Meek M,Boddeke E,Copray S

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Muscle fatigue could have a greater impact on position sense when antagonists of the movement are fatigued. Hence, this study aimed to compare the effects of antagonist and agonist exercise-induced muscle fatigue on knee joint position sense. METHODS:This within-subjects repeated-measures study included 4...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ribeiro F,Venâncio J,Quintas P,Oliveira J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a chronic, immune-mediate, peripheral myelinopathy. Inherent in its name, MMN implies involvement of two or more motor nerves. We report three patients with weakness and partial motor conduction block restricted to a single nerve and localized to sites that are not at risk for entr...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Felice KJ,Goldstein JM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent idiopathic lumbosacral plexopathy has rarely been reported in the literature. The present report describes a 59-year-old man presenting with recurrent episodes of acute leg pain, followed by weakness. After each episode, symptoms progressed for several months before peaking. Thereafter, gradual recovery ensu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yee T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hereditary transthyretin (hATTR) amyloidosis is a progressive, degenerative disease, with peripheral neuropathy, cardiomyopathy, and other clinical manifestations. In this study we examine the impact of hATTR amyloidosis on quality of life (QOL). METHODS:Neuropathy-specific QOL, measured with the Norfolk ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yarlas A,Gertz MA,Dasgupta NR,Obici L,Pollock M,Ackermann EJ,Lovley A,Kessler AS,Patel PA,White MK,Guthrie SD

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polylysines, polyornithine, and protamine increased the release of creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from frog muscles. With 5 micrograms/ml (50 nM) of a polylysine of molecular weight 100,000, enzyme release reached peak values (ten-fold above control) within 30 minutes; subsequent removal of the p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Suarez-Kurtz G

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible role of extracellular matrix in specifying the expression of superfast myosin during cat jaw muscle regeneration. Equal proportions of muscle tissue from jaw and limb were minced together after killing cellular elements from one source. We allowed the mince to regenerate in the bed of a fa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hoh JF,Hughes S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutual links between muscle pain and resting electromyographic (EMG) activity are still controversial. This study described effects of experimental muscle pain on resting EMG activity in a jaw-closing muscle and a leg muscle. Pain was induced by injections of hypertonic saline into the muscles in 10 subjects. Inje...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Svensson P,Graven-Nielsen T,Matre D,Arendt-Nielsen L

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dystrophin protein complex (DPC), composed of at least 10 proteins that associate with dystrophin, is critical for the maintenance of normal muscle fiber structure and physiology. In this study, we used immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy to examine the relative abundance and distribution of several of th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Draviam R,Billington L,Senchak A,Hoffman EP,Watkins SC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of electrical stimulation of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) on the motoneuron pool of the thigh muscle during voluntary static and dynamic muscle contraction. The study group comprised nine young men with no history of injury to the knee joints. Multistranded Teflon-insulated stain...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Fischer-Rasmussen T,Krogsgaard M,Jensen DB,Dyhre-Poulsen P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We assessed the potential use of quantitative ultrasound (QUS) in the evaluation hand muscles affected by upper extremity mononeuropathies. METHODS:The gray scale levels (GSLs) of abductor pollicis brevis (APB), abductor digiti minimi (ADM), and first dorsal interosseous (FDI) of 30 healthy and 30 upper e...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wang Y,Gutierrez H,Martucci M,Poussaint A,Qi K,Sanchez B,Rutkove SB

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spastic paresis follows chronic disruption of the central execution of volitional command. Motor function in patients with spastic paresis is subjected over time to three fundamental insults, of which the last two are avoidable: (1) the neural insult itself, which causes paresis, i.e., reduced voluntary motor unit rec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gracies JM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to examine the effects of altered thyroid state and denervation (Den) on skeletal myosin heavy chain (MHC) expression in the plantaris and soleus muscles. Rats were subjected to unilateral denervation (Den) and randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) euthyroid; (2) hyperthyroid; (3) an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Haddad F,Arnold C,Zeng M,Baldwin K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial beta-galactosidase cDNA was injected without lipofectin into 41 sites in dog muscle and expression was seen in 22 of them. The cDNA and lipofectin was injected into 35 similar sites and expression was seen in 21. Expression was seen in a maximum of 2.5% of muscle fibers and 23.21% of nonmuscle cells. A total...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Howell JM,Fletcher S,O'Hara A,Johnsen RD,Lloyd F,Kakulas BA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the blood level of creatine kinase (CK) is the most commonly used marker of muscle injury, there is marked interindividual variability in this measure. Part of this variability may be attributed to variability in the rate of CK clearance from the circulation. In this study, we assessed the possibility that CK...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Warren GL,O'farrell L,Rogers KR,Billings KM,Sayers SP,Clarkson PM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) generally presents sporadically. Epidemics of GBS are unusual. We reviewed the medical records of 26 patients hospitalized for GBS during the 2007 GBS epidemic in northeast China. The objective was to determine whether there were clinical and electrophysiological characteristics. All pati...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ye Y,Zhu D,Wang K,Wu J,Feng J,Ma D,Xing Y,Jiang X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man developed multifocal radicular pain. The diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis was delayed until bifacial paresis and right lower abdominal wall weakness developed, prompting further evaluation. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination showed aseptic meningitis. Antibodies directed against Borrelia burgdor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Krishnamurthy KB,Liu GT,Logigian EL

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KANDID is an advanced EMG decision support system dedicated to the support of the clinical neurophysiologist during EMG examinations. It has facilities for test planning, automatized and structured data interpretation, EMG diagnosis, explanation, and reporting. In a prospective European multicenter field trial, the ag...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Vingtoft S,Fuglsang-Frederiksen A,Rønager J,Petrera J,Stigsby B,Willison RG,Jarratt JA,Fawcett PR,Schofield IS,Otte G

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the personal computer has simplified the process of quantitating sensory thresholds using various testing algorithms. We reviewed the technical aspects and reproducibility of different methods to determine threshold for light touch-pressure, vibration, thermal, and pain stimuli. Clinical uses and li...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chong PS,Cros DP

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00