Phospholipid methylation in skeletal muscle membranes.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We quantified intraneural blood flow (INBF) in 18 patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and examined its relationship with nerve size, neuropathy severity, and nerve excitability parameters. METHODS:Sonographic measurements of the median nerve were performed at the same site before and after hemod...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Borire AA,Arnold R,Pussell BA,Kwai NC,Visser LH,Simon NG,Kiernan MC,Krishnan AV

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Motor unit (MU) number and size estimates were obtained from the human flexor digiti minimi muscle using histological methods. Ten adult fresh cadavers (33-74 years old) were used. The number of MUs was 130 +/- 15 and the MU size was 108 +/- 10. These values are similar to those reported for other hypothenar muscles, ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Santo Neto H,de Carvalho VC,Marques MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant presented with congenital weakness, hypotonia, arthrogryposis, atrial tachycardia, and a left intra-abdominal neuroblastoma. Muscle biopsy revealed marked excess of muscle spindles with atrophy of extrafusal fibers. The patient expired at age 14 months from progressive cardiorespiratory failure. Postmortem e...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Selcen D,Kupsky WJ,Benjamins D,Nigro MA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we investigated the influence of gender and obesity on electrical current thresholds in an attempt to optimize the application of skeletal muscle electrical stimulation (ES) in clinical practice. METHODS:Thirty-two obese and 35 age-matched, non-obese men and women received graded ES to the q...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Maffiuletti NA,Morelli A,Martin A,Duclay J,Billot M,Jubeau M,Agosti F,Sartorio A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masseter muscle biopsies were obtained from nine patients undergoing orthognatic surgery or surgery for parotid tumors. A detailed enzyme-histochemical and immunocytochemical study of these muscles was performed using antibodies specific to the various isozymes of the myosin heavy chain (MHC) in order to identify the ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Butler-Browne GS,Eriksson PO,Laurent C,Thornell LE

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:Two brothers with the childhood variant of type II glycogenosis (GSD-IIb) treated with nutrition and exercise therapy (NET) from a young age showed an unusually benign course. Muscle biopsy from the older brother, which showed characteristic vacuolar glycogen accumulation at age 2, had reverted to normal by age 16. A ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Slonim AE,Bulone L,Minikes J,Hays AP,Shanske S,Tsujino S,DiMauro S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The immuno-microenvironment of injured nerves adversely affects mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy for neurotmesis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used noninvasively to monitor nerve degeneration and regeneration. The aim of this study was to investigate nerve repair after MSC transplantation com...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yang Z,Zheng C,Zhang F,Lin B,Cao M,Tian X,Zhang J,Zhang X,Shen J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to determine whether electrical impedance myography (EIM) could serve as a diagnostic procedure for evaluation of radiculopathy. METHODS:Twenty-seven patients with clinically and radiologically diagnosed cervical or lumbosacral radiculopathy who met a "gold standard" definition underwent EIM and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Spieker AJ,Narayanaswami P,Fleming L,Keel JC,Muzin SC,Rutkove SB

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conduction velocity of A delta fibers of the human peripheral nerves was measured by using pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials following CO2 laser stimulation. It was found to be approximately 9 m/s in the forearm as well as in the lower leg. Because conventional conduction study using electric stimulation re...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kakigi R,Endo C,Neshige R,Kuroda Y,Shibasaki H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small-scale procedure for preparing tightly coupled intact skeletal muscle mitochondria from myodystrophic (myd/myd) mice is described. Mitochondrial preparations derived from heart, liver, and skeletal muscle of myd/myd and their littermate (+/?) controls are characterized with respect to their cytochrome content a...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lee CP,Martens ME,Jankulovska L,Neymark MA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological studies were performed on the ventral tail nerve of adult rats following intraperitoneal injection of a crude extract of ciguatoxin from known toxic fish flesh. Ciguatoxin induced significant slowing of both mixed and motor nerve conduction velocities and also significant reductions in both motor ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Cameron J,Flowers AE,Capra MF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of patients who will benefit from peripheral nerve surgery continues to evolve. The evaluation of patients with peripheral nerve problems, and the indications and timing of surgery are reviewed. This includes patients with transections, lesions in continuity, entrapments, tumors, injection injuries, and ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Spinner RJ,Kline DG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosing cervical radiculopathy (CR) can be difficult because of symptomatic overlap with peripheral neuropathies. In this retrospective observational study, we aimed to determine whether short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences are useful for detecting signs of denerv...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yoshida T,Suwazono S,Sueyoshi T,Izumi Y,Nodera H

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:An environmental trigger of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is supported by geographic disparities in ALS incidence and development of the disease in conjugal couples. This study aims to investigate the incidence of ALS in the Northern New England states of New Hampshire (NH), Vermont (VT), an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Caller TA,Chipman JW,Field NC,Stommel EW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Neutral lipid-storage disease with myopathy is caused by mutations in PNPLA2, which produce skeletal and cardiac myopathy. We report a man with multiorgan neutral lipid storage and unusual multisystem clinical involvement, including cognitive impairment. METHODS:Quantitative brain MRI with voxel-based mor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Massa R,Pozzessere S,Rastelli E,Serra L,Terracciano C,Gibellini M,Bozzali M,Arca M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Peripheral nerve injuries (PNI) are among the leading causes of physical disability in the United States. The majority of injuries occur in the upper extremities, and functional recovery is often limited. Robust animal models are critical first steps for developing effective therapies to restore function a...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Meyers EC,Granja R,Solorzano BR,Romero-Ortega M,Kilgard MP,Rennaker RL 2nd,Hays S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited data exist regarding myopathies with early or prominent dysphagia. METHODS:A retrospective study was performed (January 2003 to August 2019) to identify myopathy patients in whom dysphagia was the initial symptom or was disproportionately severe compared with limb weakness. RESULTS:Thirty-two patie...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Triplett JD,Pinto MV,Hosfield EA,Milone M,Liewluck T

更新日期：2020-09-01 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 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：:Muscle weakness, studied in 4 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), was compared with values from normal subjects. Twitch occlusion showed that normal subjects could activate their muscles maximally, but patients rarely achieved greater than 60% activation. In both groups, motoneuron firing rates increased linearly w...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rice CL,Vollmer TL,Bigland-Ritchie B

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Two previously reported Norwegian patients with painful muscle cramps and giant myotonic discharges were genotyped and compared with those of members of 21 families harboring the same mutation. METHODS:Using primers specific for SCN4A and CLCN1, the DNA of the Norwegian family members was amplified and bi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Torbergsen T,Jurkat-Rott K,Stålberg EV,Løseth S,Hødneø A,Lehmann-Horn F

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously reported patient presenting sensory-dominant neuropathy with antiganglioside antibodies, bound preferentially to polysialogangliosides including GD1b, was autopsied. While axonal degeneration was predominant in the sural nerve, many demyelinated fibers were present in the spinal roots. Dorsal roots had un...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Obi T,Murakami T,Takatsu M,Kusunoki S,Serizawa M,Mizoguchi K,Koike R,Nishimura Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to assess age- and gender-specific incidence rates (IRs) of acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-antibody-positive myasthenia gravis (MG) in South Africa, and geographical variations in incidence. METHODS:IRs were calculated from positive AChR-antibody laboratory data between 2011 and 2...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mombaur B,Lesosky MR,Liebenberg L,Vreede H,Heckmann JM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) were studied in the diaphragm of early postnatal rats, using radiometric determination of enzyme activities, velocity sedimentation for separation of molecular forms, and electron microscopic cytochemistry to localize enzymes. AChE activity did not change s...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brzin M,Sketelj J,Tennyson VM,Kiauta T,Budininkas-Schoenebeck M

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Contemporary natural history data in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is needed to assess care recommendations and aid in planning future trials. METHODS:The Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group (CINRG) DMD Natural History Study (DMD-NHS) enrolled 340 individuals, aged 2-28 years, with DM...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McDonald CM,Henricson EK,Abresch RT,Han JJ,Escolar DM,Florence JM,Duong T,Arrieta A,Clemens PR,Hoffman EP,Cnaan A,Cinrg Investigators.

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein compositions of subcellular fractions of muscle obtained from 17 Duchenne dystrophy patients, 15 disease controls (10 different primary myopathies, 5 spinal muscular atrophy patients), and 10 normals were examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The gels were stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Niebroj-Dobosz I,Kornguth S,Schutta H,Siegel FL,Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz I

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdrop samples of endoneurial fluid and serum from galactosemic rats were analyzed with energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS). The sodium concentration of endoneurial fluid from galactose-fed rats (295 meq/liter) was nearly twice that of age-matched controls (152 meq/liter) and indicates that sodium is present in an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mizisin AP,Myers RR,Powell HC

更新日期：1986-06-01 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