Dietary treatment of gluten neuropathy.

abstract：:The objectives of this study were 1) to determine the degree to which soleus motoneurons find their appropriate target following crush and transection injuries to the sciatic nerve, and 2) to determine whether repair of a transected nerve with a silicone tube leads to greater specificity of reinnervation and recovery ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bodine-Fowler SC,Meyer RS,Moskovitz A,Abrams R,Botte MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured distal sympathetic and vagal function in 73 consecutive patients with diabetic neuropathy seen at the Mayo Autonomic Reflex Laboratory. Postganglionic sympathetic failure measured proximally within the foot occurred as commonly as vagal failure (58% and 55%, respectively) and occurred much more frequently ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Low PA,Zimmerman BR,Dyck PJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We report preliminary findings of nerve ultrasound in patients with cerebellar ataxia neuropathy vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) who have sensory impairment due to dorsal root ganglionopathy. METHODS:The ultrasound cross-sectional area (CSA) of median and ulnar nerves of 7 CANVAS patients was compa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pelosi L,Leadbetter R,Mulroy E,Chancellor AM,Mossman S,Roxburgh R

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Mutations in the guanosine diphosphate-mannose pyrophosphorylase-B gene (GMPPB) have been identified in congenital muscular dystrophies, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2T), and congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs); overall, 41 patients have been described. METHODS:Two patients presented with a myas...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Montagnese F,Klupp E,Karampinos DC,Biskup S,Gläser D,Kirschke JS,Schoser B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic studies were analyzed in patients with neuropathy associated with IgM monoclonal proteins, 7 with anti-myelin associated glycoprotein reactivity (MAG) and 7 nonreactive to MAG. The findings were distinctly different in the two groups. The electrodiagnostic studies of all the MAG-reactive patients had...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kelly JJ Jr

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesized pyrimidine compound MS-818 has neurotrophic effects in several kinds of neuronal cells, but its effect with respect to muscle cells remains unknown. We therefore examined the effects of MS-818 on regeneration for 12 weeks in a wounded area (damaged and gap areas) of cut muscle in adult rats. The right ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sugiyama N,Yoshimura A,Fujitsuka C,Iwata H,Awaya A,Mori S,Yoshizato H,Fujitsuka N

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Twenty-six patients with clinical symptoms of adult onset carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPTII) deficiency were examined. All patients had skeletal muscle CPTII enzyme activity levels indicative of heterozygosity for CPT2 mutations, however sequence analysis identified no pathogenic mutations within th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Isackson PJ,Sutton KA,Hostetler KY,Vladutiu GD

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we present a reproducible technique to assess motor recovery after nerve injury via neuromuscular junction (NMJ) immunostaining and electrodiagnostic testing. METHODS:Wild-type mice underwent sciatic nerve transection with repair. Hindlimb muscles were collected for microscopy up to 30 weeks...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Vannucci B,Santosa KB,Keane AM,Jablonka-Shariff A,Lu CY,Yan Y,MacEwan M,Snyder-Warwick AK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral neuropathies are reported to arise as a result of the systemic inflammatory response produced by a full-thickness cutaneous burn injury. This study was designed to characterize the magnitude and time course of functional and morphological changes in peripheral axons that arise after a full-thickness dermal ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Higashimori H,Whetzel TP,Mahmood T,Carlsen RC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sarcopenia likely comprises muscle fiber denervation and re-innervation, resulting in clustering of muscle fibers of the same type (classified by myosin heavy chain isoform composition). Development of methodology to quantitatively evaluate clustering of muscle fibers according to fiber type is necessary. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Greising SM,Medina-Martínez JS,Vasdev AK,Sieck GC,Mantilla CB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many post-polio patients develop new muscle weakness decades after the initial illness. However, its mechanism and treatment are controversial. The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that: (1) after strength training, post-polio patients show strength improvement comparable to that seen in the healthy el...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chan KM,Amirjani N,Sumrain M,Clarke A,Strohschein FJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme- and immunohistochemical study has been performed on human masseter muscle spindles. Antibodies selective for different myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms and M-band proteins (M-protein, myomesin, and MM-CK) were used. The expression of these proteins was determined in the different intrafusal fiber types. Nu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

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

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle weakness in myasthenia gravis is due to autoantibody-induced loss of functional acetylcholine receptors (AChR). About 15% of myasthenia gravis patients, however, do not have detectable anti-AChR antibodies. To investigate the effect of their plasma immunoglobulins on neuromuscular transmission, mice were inject...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Burges J,Vincent A,Molenaar PC,Newsom-Davis J,Peers C,Wray D

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases involving chronic inflammation can lead to prolonged exposure of skeletal muscle to inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), which may contribute to the skeletal muscle weakness seen in these conditions. In this study we examined the effect of a prolonged exposure to TNFalpha on ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： van Kann LN,Bakker AJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electrophysiologic study of peripheral nerve excitability was performed in patients with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HPP) and in normal controls. It was found that a marked degree of neural hyperexcitability existed in all patients with HPP who showed cold sensitivity. The results suggest involvement of the ne...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Segura RP,Petajan JH

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Muscle cramps are difficult to study scientifically because of their spontaneity and unpredictability. Various laboratory techniques to induce muscle cramps have been explored but the best technique for inducing cramps is unclear. Electrical stimulation appears to be the most reliable, but there is a perception that i...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Miller KC,Knight KL

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle of donor origin was formed after implantation of H-2Kb-tsA58 muscle precursor cells (mpc) into irradiated mdx nu/nu mouse muscles. A series of injections of the myotoxin, notexin, which destroys mature muscle fibers but spares muscle precursor cells and other tissues, was made into the mpc-injected muscles, lea...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gross JG,Morgan JE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic findings of fibrillations and positive sharp waves in the lumbosacral paraspinals in patients without previous back surgery has been generally considered to be abnormal, consistent with posterior rami denervation. In some cases, it is the only abnormality on the electromyographic examination. This st...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Date ES,Mar EY,Bugola MR,Teraoka JK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques to estimate motor unit number (MUNE) measure the number of functioning motor units in a muscle. As amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive motor unit loss, this disease offers an ideal setting for the use of MUNE. Statistical MUNE was employed in a recent multicenter trial of cre...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Shefner JM,Cudkowicz ME,Zhang H,Schoenfeld D,Jillapalli D,Northeast ALS Consortium.

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory myopathies include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), and sporadic inclusion-body myositis (s-IBM). In DM, the main immune effector response appears to be humoral and directed against the microvasculature, whereas in both PM and s-IBM, cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and macrophages invade and eventually...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Figarella-Branger D,Civatte M,Bartoli C,Pellissier JF

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using poststimulus time histograms, it has been reported that stimulation of the median nerve at the elbow produces a monosynaptic EPSP in voluntarily active single motoneurons of the human biceps brachii. The present study was undertaken to: (i) determine whether such stimulation could evoke a reproducible reflex res...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Miller TA,Mogyoros I,Burke D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are scarce relating to the plasticity with strength training of dynamic muscle performance in older humans. Hence, we investigated alterations in the torque-velocity relation with strength training in old age, and their origin. Knee extension and leg-press exercises were performed three times per week for 14 week...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Reeves ND,Maganaris CN,Narici MV

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of muscle strength with aging appears to be greater in the lower than upper limbs, but strength and its neural control have never been compared in the same population of individuals in both upper and lower limbs. The aim of this study was to investigate differences between eight young (20-31 years) and eight ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bazzucchi I,Felici F,Macaluso A,De Vito G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle fibers from dystrophic mice and littermate controls (ReJ-129) were characterized electrically and then injected with an intracellular marker. In this way they could be identified for examination with an electron microscope to correlate the relative time course of electrical and ultrastructural alterati...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kerr LM,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hand-held dynamometry (HHD) is commonly used to measure ankle plantarflexion strength but has variable reliability measuring higher forces. Fixed HHD is suggested to improve reliability. We, therefore, compared the reliability, consistency, and accuracy of measuring plantarflexion strength. METHODS:Planta...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Davis PR,McKay MJ,Baldwin JN,Burns J,Pareyson D,Rose KJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a consanguineous family that had progressive myopathy with rimmed vacuole (RV) formation and amyloid deposition. Patient 1 is a 71-year-old woman with muscle atrophy in the lumbar girdle and lower extremities. Patient 2 is a 40-year-old man (the son of Patient 1) with fatty changes in the biceps femoris mu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kojima Y,Sakai K,Ishida C,Asaka T,Hamaguchi T,Nozaki I,Fukushima K,Tsuchiya A,Kametani F,Yazaki M,Okino S,Yamada M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As caveolin-3 deficiencies may explain persistent hyper-CK-emia, we performed CAV3 gene mutation analysis and immunohistochemistry for caveolin-3 in 31 patients with idiopathic hyper-CK-emia. In 2 of 29 patients who donated blood, variants in the CAV3 gene were detected. Although immunohistochemical analysis strongly ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Reijneveld JC,Ginjaar IB,Frankhuizen WS,Notermans NC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic with strong bactericidal effects against Gram-positive bacteria and minor side effects on skeletal muscles. The type and magnitude of the early effect of daptomycin on skeletal muscles of rats was quantified by histopathology, examination of contractile properties, Evans Blue Dye...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kostrominova TY,Hassett CA,Rader EP,Davis C,Larkin LM,Coleman S,Oleson FB,Faulkner JA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00