Hibernation induction trigger reduces hypoxic damage of swine skeletal muscle.

abstract：:We studied the effect of a gluten-free diet in patients with idiopathic sensorimotor axonal neuropathy and circulating antigliadin antibodies. Consecutive patients underwent baseline neurophysiological assessment and were offered a gluten-free diet. Those who went on the diet formed the intention-to-treat group and th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hadjivassiliou M,Kandler RH,Chattopadhyay AK,Davies-Jones AG,Jarratt JA,Sanders DS,Sharrack B,Grünewald RA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is usually characterized by prominent motor deficits. A pure sensory presentation, labeled chronic sensory demyelinating neuropathy (CSDN), has been reported, but it is unclear if this neuropathy is a distinct clinical and immunologic entity or merely the sensor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Berger AR,Herskovitz S,Kaplan J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superficial peroneal nerve subserves sensation on the entire surface of the dorsum of the foot, except in small areas. All previously reported techniques for evaluating nerve conduction along this nerve tested a proximal portion of the nerve. We report a new method for evaluating sensory nerve conduction of the fo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oh SJ,Demirci M,Dajani B,Melo AC,Claussen GC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Evaluation of nerve mechanical properties has the potential to improve assessment of nerve impairment. Shear wave velocity, as measured by using shear wave (SW) ultrasound elastography, is a promising indicator of nerve mechanical properties such as stiffness. However, elucidation of external factors that ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rugel CL,Franz CK,Lee SSM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with demyelinating neurological disease, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or multiple sclerosis, contains factors that inhibit the excitatory Na+ current. Such antiexcitatory factors are occasionally also detectable in CSF from patients with other neurological diseases but were...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brinkmeier H,Seewald MJ,Wollinsky KH,Rüdel R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare electromyogram (EMG) and acoustic myogram (AMG) recordings of biceps brachii muscles in patients with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). The maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) in the CP group was approximately one half of that of the normal group even after being normalized by the muscle ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Akataki K,Mita K,Itoh K,Suzuki N,Watakabe M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of patients with MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes) have an A-->G mutation at nucleotide 3243 in mitochondrial transfer (t)RNA. To date there have only been 10 reported cases of MELAS syndrome in patients with a T-->C mutation at position 3271...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Tarnopolsky MA,Maguire J,Myint T,Applegarth D,Robinson BH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if chronic fatigue syndrome (CSF) is characterized by abnormalities in oxidative muscle metabolism. Patients with CFS according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria (n = 22) were compared to normal sedentary subjects (n = 15). CFS patients were also tested before and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McCully KK,Natelson BH,Iotti S,Sisto S,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anterior interosseous nerve syndrome and ulnar neuropathy, paralysis or weakness of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) muscles has been shown to vary according to the degree of involvement of the median and ulnar nerves, respectively. We traced these nerves in 50 cadaveric specimens in which each FDP was complete...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oh CS,Won HS,Lee KS,Chung IH,Kim SM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compound muscle action potential (M(MAX)) during a maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) may be measured to determine if the motor nerve has been supramaximally stimulated during the interpolated twitch technique (ITT). Ten males performed isometric knee extension MVCs. M(MAX) for the vastus medialis was recorded du...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Berger MJ,Watson BV,Doherty TJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroelectromyography is used to study the electrical activity of the entire motor unit. The amplitude of the motor unit action potential (MUP), recorded from a bared cannula, is dependent on the number and size of muscle fibers in the motor unit. In most situations of reinnervation the local fiber density (FD) as rec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Stålberg E

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five members of the same family, along three generations, presented with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Neurological examination, muscle strength, electromyography, and serum creatine kinase were normal. Skeletal muscle biopsy showed abnormal lipid accumulation and carnitine deficiency. In three patients the cardiac sym...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bautista J,Rafel E,Martinez A,Sainz I,Herrera J,Segura L,Chinchon I

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia-reperfusion injury is implicated in the failure of free flap and replant surgeries and is associated with the pathogenesis of a wide variety of clinical diseases including stroke, myocardial infarction, spinal injury, and compartment syndromes. We used a skeletal muscle flap model to test if the induction of ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lille S,Su CY,Schoeller T,Suchy H,Lyons S,Russell RC,Neumeister M,Lai CC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study was undertaken to describe a method for quantifying vibration when using a conventional tuning fork (CTF) in comparison to a Rydel-Seiffer tuning fork (RSTF) and to provide reference values. METHODS:Vibration thresholds at index finger and big toe were obtained in 281 participants. Spearman's c...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Alanazy MH,Alfurayh NA,Almweisheer SN,Aljafen BN,Muayqil T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of low-dose arachidonic acid into the rat femoral artery occludes the vasa nervorum of the tibial nerve and produces focal and generalized ischemia with transient effects on nerve conduction. Across a severely ischemic segment of the proximal tibial nerve there is a marked fall in amplitude of the compound m...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Parry GJ,Linn DJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Glucocorticosteroids (GC) are effective in slowing weakness in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHODS:This is a multisite, 1-year, open-label trial of twice-weekly prednisolone (5 mg/kg/dose) in infants/young boys (0.4-2.4 years) with DMD. We compared changes in Bayley III Scales of Infant D...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Connolly AM,Zaidman CM,Golumbek PT,Cradock MM,Flanigan KM,Kuntz NL,Finkel RS,McDonald CM,Iannaccone ST,Anand P,Siener CA,Florence JM,Lowes LP,Alfano LN,Johnson LB,Nicorici A,Nelson LL,Mendell JR,MDA DMD Clinical Resea

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative disease of skeletal, respiratory, and cardiac muscles caused by defects in the dystrophin gene. More recently, brain involvement has been verified. Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress may underlie the pathophysiology of DMD. In this study we ev...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Comim CM,Hoepers A,Ventura L,Freiberger V,Dominguini D,Mina F,Mendonça BP,Scaini G,Vainzof M,Streck EL,Quevedo J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological and phenotypic properties of motor units in the cat soleus muscle were studied after 4 months of inactivity induced by spinal cord isolation (SI). The soleus of some SI cats were stimulated for 30 min/day during an isometric (SI-I), shortening (SI-S), or lengthening (SI-L) phase of a simulated step c...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Zhong H,Roy RR,Hodgson JA,Talmadge RJ,Grossman EJ,Edgerton VR

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten adult myotonic dystrophy patients underwent measurements of lung function, maximal dynamic and static ventilatory efforts, and respiratory muscle electromyography (EMG). EMG studies were performed during spontaneous breathing or when subjects breathed through high inspiratory or expiratory resistive loads. Present...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Jammes Y,Pouget J,Grimaud C,Serratrice G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The p.A1156T mutation alters the function of the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.4 on the muscle sarcolemma, causing a channelopathy without overt myotonia or periodic paralysis but with myalgic pain. METHODS:A postal survey was conducted to assess the prevalence and characteristics of pain and related ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Suokas K,Palmio J,Sandell S,Udd B,Hietaharju A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Pretreatment with pyridostigmine bromide (PB) of human intercostal muscle fibers exposed to the irreversible acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor soman was investigated. METHODS:Muscles were pretreated with 3 × 10(-6) M PB or saline for 20 minutes, then exposed to 10(-7) M soman for 10 minutes. RESULTS:...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Maselli RA,Henderson JD,Ng J,Follette D,Graves G,Wilson BW

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated the possible role of intercostal surgical neurolysis in relieving chronic neuropathic pain refractory to other nonsurgical treatments in patients with postsurgical thoracic pain. METHODS:We retrospectively collected clinical data on patients referred to the Neurosurgery Unit of Policlinic ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Cappellari AM,Tiberio F,Alicandro G,Spagnoli D,Grimoldi N

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern neuromuscular electrodiagnosis (EDX) and neuromuscular ultrasound (NMUS) require a universal language for effective communication in clinical practice and research and, in particular, for teaching young colleagues. Therefore, the AANEM and the IFCN have decided to publish a joint glossary as they feel the need ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dengler R,de Carvalho M,Shahrizaila N,Nodera H,Vucic S,Grimm A,Padua L,Schreiber S,Kneiser MK,Hobson-Webb LD,Boon AJ,Smith BE,Litchy WJ,Li Y,Lenihan M,Thompson VB,Stalberg E,Sanders DB,Kincaid JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory reflex responses to electrical stimulation of the mental nerve were studied in recordings from single motor units (SMU) in the human masseter muscle. A new analytical technique for spike train data was used. Electrical stimuli were delivered to the mental nerve when the SMU fired with two consecutive inter-...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Graven-Nielsen T,Svensson P,McMillan AS,Arendt-Nielsen L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we investigated the interaction between adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs) and myoblasts in co-culture experiments. METHODS:Specific inductive media were used to differentiate ASCs in vitro into a Schwann cell-like phenotype (differentiated adipose tissue-derived stem cells, or dASCs) ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： El-Habta R,Kingham PJ,Backman LJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nemaline myopathy is a rare disorder characterized by skeletal muscle weakness of varying severity and onset, with the presence of nemaline rods on muscle biopsy. Congenital nemaline body myopathy due to mutations in TNNT1 has hitherto only been described as a result of a single founder mutation in patient...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Abdulhaq UN,Daana M,Dor T,Fellig Y,Eylon S,Schuelke M,Shaag A,Elpeleg O,Edvardson S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation analyzes the temporal characteristics of maximal depolarization times for three waveforms: end-plate spikes, fibrillation potentials, and positive sharp waves (PSWs) to provide support for the electrode initiation hypothesis of PSW induction. The maximal depolarization times for PSWs are documented ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dumitru D,Santa Maria DL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyographic examination of the deeper external anal sphincter (EAS) muscle is far more uncomfortable than of the subcutaneous muscle, so we tested the need for its examination. We compared the findings in 85 paired examinations of ipsilateral subcutaneous and deeper EAS muscles in 67 patients with a cauda equina...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Podnar S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a reported patient with myopathic carnitine deficiency, addition of exogenous carnitine to muscle homogenates failed to correct palmitate oxidation, and oral carnitine was of no clinical benefit. In a muscle biopsy from this patient, we found that, in contrast to the marked deficiency of free carnitine (3% of norma...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Trevisan CP,Reichmann H,DeVivo DC,DiMauro S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00