Differential response of heat shock proteins to hindlimb unloading and reloading in the soleus.

abstract：:We studied the effect of initiation time of nerve expansion after nerve transection on the induction of ODC activity and Schwann cell proliferation in nerve tissue under Wallerian degeneration. The levels of ODC activity and Schwann cell proliferation decreased as the initiation time of nerve expansion was delayed aft...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ohkaya S,Hibasami H,Hirata H,Sasaki H,Morita A,Matsumoto M,Uchida A,Nakashima K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of effective therapy for many of the chronic neuromuscular diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hereditary motor sensory neuropathy (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease), spinocerebellar degenerations and idiopathic polyneuropathy has led to a search for substances that may stimulate peripheral nerve regen...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bradley WG

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single muscle fibers were prepared from biopsy specimens of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), normal, and neuromuscular disease controls. Single muscle cells were classified as type 1, type 2, or intermediate by the skinned fiber method. The intermediate fiber was most abundant in DMD, comprising 29% of fibers examin...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Takagi A,Ishiura S,Nonaka I,Sugita H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinnervation of a free muscle graft by nerves from an adjacent intact muscle is called muscular neurotization. This paper investigates the mechanisms and stimuli responsible for muscular neurotization in the rat. Sternohyoid or sternomastoid muscles were transplanted as free muscle grafts to the ventral surface of an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Must R

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2D (LGMD2D) is caused by mutations in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene (SGCA). The most frequently reported mutation, 229CGC>TGC (R77C) in exon 3 of SGCA, results in the substitution of arginine by cysteine. We present here the clinical, immunohistochemical, and genetic data of 11 Finnish pati...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hackman P,Juvonen V,Sarparanta J,Penttinen M,Aärimaa T,Uusitalo M,Auranen M,Pihko H,Alén R,Junes M,Lönnqvist T,Kalimo H,Udd B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that patients with mitochondrial myopathies can benefit from short-term aerobic exercise training. In this study, we compared the responses to short-term aerobic training of patients with mitochondrial myopathies, patients with nonmetabolic myopathies, and sedentary normal subjects. Tra...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Taivassalo T,De Stefano N,Chen J,Karpati G,Arnold DL,Argov Z

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) is a very rare autosomal recessive disorder (gene CHS1/LYST) characterized by partial albinism, recurrent infections, and easy bruising. Survivors develop a constellation of slowly progressive neurological manifestations. METHODS:We describe clinical, laboratory, electrophys...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Faber IV,Prota JRM,Martinez ARM,Nucci A,Lopes-Cendes I,Júnior MCF

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Rapid and accessible methods for diagnosing diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) have been developed, but not validated, in large cohorts of people with diabetes. METHODS:The performance of a point-of-care device (POCD) was studied in 168 patients with type 2 diabetes, estimating the sensitivity, specificity, po...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kural MA,Andersen ST,Andersen NT,Andersen H,Charles M,Finnerup NB,Jensen TS,Tankisi H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first dorsal interosseous (FDI) and abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscles are innervated by the same ulnar nerve, but studies have shown that the former is much more severely affected in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In this study, threshold tracking was used to investigate whether membrane properties differ betwe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bae JS,Sawai S,Misawa S,Kanai K,Isose S,Kuwabara S

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Premotor potentials (PMPs) precede compound muscle action potentials evoked from the second lumbrical muscle after median nerve stimulation. Although PMP has been identified as a median sensory nerve action potential, few reports have documented the significance of PMP parameters for diagnosing carpal tunn...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kodama M,Sasao Y,Tochikura M,Kasahara T,Koyama Y,Aono K,Fujii C,Hanayama K,Takahashi O,Kobayashi Y,Masakado Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Polyneuropathy signs (Neuropathy Impairment Score, NIS), neurophysiologic tests (m+7Ionis ), disability, and health scores were assessed in baseline evaluations of 100 patients entered into an oligonucleotide familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) trial. METHODS:We assessed: (1) Proficiency of grading ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dyck PJ,Kincaid JC,Dyck PJB,Chaudhry V,Goyal NA,Alves C,Salhi H,Wiesman JF,Labeyrie C,Robinson-Papp J,Cardoso M,Laura M,Ruzhansky K,Cortese A,Brannagan TH 3rd,Khoury J,Khella S,Waddington-Cruz M,Ferreira J,Wang AK,

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that affect the shape of the so-called "normal cloud" of the turns and amplitude measurements of the electromyographic interference pattern are investigated. As the force of voluntary contraction increases from low to moderate levels, the number of turns in the signal increase faster than does the mean amplitu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nandedkar SD,Sanders DB,Stalberg EV

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Amyloidosis derived from transthyretin (TTR) molecules is typically caused by mutations of the TTR gene. METHODS:We describe an elderly patient with a severe length-dependent polyneuropathy that unexpectedly proved to be caused by wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis. RESULTS:The diagnosis was made by mus...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lam L,Margeta M,Layzer R

更新日期：2015-07-01 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:Lower limb strength has never been characterized separately for late-onset and adult myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) phenotypes. METHODS:The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe and compare lower limb strength between the 2 DM1 phenotypes; and (2) compare the impairment profiles obtained from 2 asse...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Petitclerc É,Hébert LJ,Mathieu J,Desrosiers J,Gagnon C

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the myelin protein zero gene (MPZ) are associated with certain demyelinating neuropathies, and in particular with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B (CMT1B), Dejerine-Sottas syndrome, and congenital hypomyelination. MPZ mutations affecting the protein's transmembrane domain are generally associated with ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eggers SD,Keswani SC,Melli G,Cornblath DR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six members originating from two families with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (hypertrophic and neuronal types) were noted to have enlarged calf muscles. Muscle computed tomography revealed that muscle enlargement in the propositus of the family with the hypertrophic type of HMSN was due to an increase in mus...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： De Visser M,Hoogendijk JE,Ongerboer BW,Verbeeten BJ Jr

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the underlying physiological mechanisms for the difference in the time to failure for two types of fatiguing contractions, 20 subjects performed force and position tasks with the elbow flexor muscles at a comparable net muscle torque for a similar duration. Prior to terminating each task, blood flow was oc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rudroff T,Poston B,Shin IS,Bojsen-Møller J,Enoka RM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic findings in thallium intoxication are usually untimely, limited in extent, and often uninformative. This report documents serial conduction and electromyographic findings in a case of thallium poisoning, beginning 10 days after symptom onset and ending 24 months later. Initially, the plantar nerves ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dumitru D,Kalantri A

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:We report three patients with inflammatory myopathy who presented clinically with weakness and wasting of only one limb. The myopathy progressed over 6 months and 5 years, respectively, in two patients and was stable after 8 years in the third patient. One patient had a skin rash. Serum CK was elevated in the two pati...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lederman RJ,Salanga VD,Wilbourn AJ,Hanson MR,Dudley AW Jr

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:Physicians have an ethical and legal duty to obtain patients' informed consent before ordering testing and treatment. Informed consent encompasses informed refusal, the correlative right of patients to refuse tests and therapies they do not want. A patient's informed consent requires adequate information, capacity to ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bernat JL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although formal spirometry is the gold standard for monitoring respiratory function in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG), such testing is often delayed or unavailable. There is a need for a simple bedside test that can accurately measure respiratory function. METHODS:We conducted a prospective, cross-s...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Elsheikh B,Arnold WD,Gharibshahi S,Reynolds J,Freimer M,Kissel JT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cranial muscle fasciculations may be difficult to detect in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Ultrasound (US) detection of fasciculations in these muscles may have clinical utility. METHODS:Patients with suspected ALS were prospectively enrolled. Nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography (EMG),...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： O'gorman CM,Weikamp JG,Baria M,Van Den Engel-Hoek L,Kassardjian C,Van Alfen N,Boon AJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to know the effects of prolonged repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) when it is used in neurophysiological studies. RNS with up to 100 supramaximal stimuli was given to the median, ulnar, and peroneal nerves of normal subjects and the ulnar nerves of subjects with early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (AL...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Baumann F,Henderson RD,Tremayne F,Hutchinson N,McCombe PA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical testing for neuromuscular dysfunction is supported by an extensive amount of excellent basic information about normal and abnormal subcellular physiology and ultrastructure. This information provides an essential frame of reference for describing the rationale of single-fiber electromyography (SFEMG). SFEMG i...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Keesey JC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult skeletal muscle fibers are among the few cell types that are truly multinucleated. Recently, evidence has accumulated supporting a role for the modulation of myonuclear number during muscle remodeling in response to injury, adaptation, and disease. These studies have demonstrated that muscle hypertrophy is assoc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Allen DL,Roy RR,Edgerton VR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Statins have well-known benefits on cardiovascular mortality, though up to 15% of patients experience side effects. With guidelines from the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and American Diabetes Association expected to double the number of statin users, the overall incidence of ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rengo JL,Callahan DM,Savage PD,Ades PA,Toth MJ

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological data suggest that prolonged exposure to cyclic lumbar flexion elicits a chronic neuromuscular disorder and disability in workers. This study provides a physiological and biomechanical assessment of various repetitions of cyclic lumbar flexion sessions as a risk factor for development of an acute neurom...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Navar D,Zhou BH,Lu Y,Solomonow M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00