Pain in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2: a postal survey in Finland.

abstract：:Serum creatine kinase (CK) activity, calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) contents of skeletal muscle and isolated mitochondria, as well as oxidative phosphorylation of X-linked muscular dystrophic (mdx) mice were compared with normal control animals at ages 5, 10, and 23 weeks. Serum CK is elevated in mdx mice at all ages...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Glesby MJ,Rosenmann E,Nylen EG,Wrogemann K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to determine which muscles to choose for better assessment of the craniobulbar region in establishing the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:We studied the frontalis muscle in 83 controls and compared it with the tongue, sternocleidomastoid (SCM), and trapezius muscles in ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pan H,Jian F,Lin J,Chen N,Zhang Z,Wang Y,Cui L,Kimura J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study some particular and puzzling aspects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are discussed, with an emphasis on the role of neocortical evolution. Other issues explored include the nature of the clinical deficit in ALS; anatomical and evolutionary aspects of the neocortex, motor cortex, and corpus callosu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eisen A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fastest median and ulnar velocities derived by recording motor and mixed nerve action potentials, F waves, H-reflexes, and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were compared. H-reflex recording was facilitated by employing selective group Ia excitation during voluntary muscular contraction. Mixed nerve, SEP, and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eisen A,Hoirch M,White J,Calne D

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to compare median nerve elasticity between leprosy patients (LPs) and healthy volunteers (HVs) using ultrasound elastography (UE). METHODS:Two radiologists independently measured the strain ratio of the median nerve/flexor digitorum superficialis muscle (MN/FDSM) of 18 LP and 18 HV using real-ti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nogueira-Barbosa MH,Lugão HB,Gregio-Júnior E,Crema MD,Kobayashi MTT,Frade MAC,Pavan TZ,Carneiro AAO

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients (n = 41) with isolated weakness of the eyelids or extraocular muscles, who had been referred for single fiber electromyography (SFEMG), were followed up after 4 to 24 months, At follow-up the patients were classified as "definite ocular myasthenia gravis" (MG), "definite other diagnosis," or "no definite diag...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rouseev R,Ashby P,Basinski A,Sharpe JA

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many prognostic factors have been studied in carpal tunnel decompression, but most studies consider only a subset of variables. METHODS:Three thousand three hundred thirty-two operations were used to develop prognostic models, and 885 operations were used for validation. Outcome recorded on a Likert scale...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bowman A,Rudolfer S,Weller P,Bland JDP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with myasthenia gravis were studied. Needle interference patterns at maximal isometric contractions were recorded from the biceps brachii muscles. Each recording lasted for 30 seconds and induced some fatigue. The EMG signals were transformed into power spectra and were analyzed for differences between...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yaar I,Mitz AR,Pottala EW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 myotonic dystrophy or DM1 (Steinert's disease), which is the commonest muscular dystrophy in adults, has intrigued physicians for over a century. Unusual features, compared with other dystrophies, include myotonia, anticipation, and involvement of other organs, notably the brain, eyes, smooth muscle, cardiac co...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Machuca-Tzili L,Brook D,Hilton-Jones D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The findings in two cases of congenital myasthenia investigated by intercostal muscle biopsy are presented. The first case, a 16-year-old boy, showed reduced miniature endplate potential amplitude and normal 125I-alpha-bungarotoxin binding to postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors. Muscle biopsy and endplate ultrastruct...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lecky BR,Morgan-Hughes JA,Murray NM,Landon DN,Wray D,Prior C

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：INTRODUCTION:We examined the extent to which fatiguing cycling exercise in the heat influences contractile function in modulating the force-frequency relationship. METHODS:Before (∽37.0 °C) and after (∽38.5 °C) exercise (ExH) and passive (PaH) hyperthermia, an 8-s train of stimulation at 10, 20, 50, and 100 Hz (2 s pe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Périard JD,Racinais S,Thompson MW

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we analyzed the crosstalk in mechanomyographic (MMG) signals generated by the extensor digitorum (ED), extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU), and flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) muscles of the forearm during wrist flexion (WF) and extension (WE) and radial (RD) and ulnar (UD) deviations. METHODS:Twenty r...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Islam A,Sundaraj K,Ahmad RB,Sundaraj S,Ahamed NU,Ali MA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reviewed the presentation, initial clinical course, and electrodiagnostic features of children with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). We now report the long-term follow-up of 12 children with idiopathic CIDP, and compare these to 62 adults with idiopathic CIDP. Children of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Simmons Z,Wald JJ,Albers JW

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 55-year-old man with non-small-cell lung cancer who underwent radiation, chemotherapy with carbotaxol and paclitaxel, and left upper lobe removal 2 years prior to evaluation. He was referred for disabling orthostatic hypotension (113/69 mm Hg supine and 66/47 mm Hg standing after 10 minutes) wi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Peltier AC,Black BK,Raj SR,Donofrio P,Robertson D,Biaggioni I

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Direct infection of muscle fibers by human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) has recently been reported in a patient with polymyositis infected with both HTLV-I and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Coinfections of these viruses are frequently found in the United States. In Kagoshima, Japan, patients with polymyo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Higuchi I,Nerenberg M,Yoshimine K,Yoshida M,Fukunaga H,Tajima K,Osame M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who experienced progressive diplopia and distal weakness of the upper limbs. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed extensive white matter lesions and analysis of cerebrospinal fluid revealed acute human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection. Myasthenia gravis (MG) was evidenced by...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lalive PH,Allali G,Truffert A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the contributions of neural and mechanical mechanisms to the limits in the range of motion (ROM) about a joint, we studied the effects of 30 sessions of static stretch training on the characteristics of the plantar-flexor muscles in 12 subjects. Changes in the maximal ankle dorsiflexion and the torque pro...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guissard N,Duchateau J

更新日期：2004-02-01 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: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：:At least 50 disease-causing mutations in the skeletal muscle voltage-gated chloride channel gene (CLCN1), almost all of which originate from Caucasian families, have been identified. We investigated a Japanese family with Thomsen's myotonia congenita that included 16 affected individuals (8 men and 8 women) through fi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sasaki R,Ito N,Shimamura M,Murakami T,Kuzuhara S,Uchino M,Uyama E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle sodium-channel disorders cover a spectrum of rare myotonic diseases. In a German family with 17 affected individuals in four generations, we identified a heterozygous missense mutation in exon 24 A1481D (c.4442 C>A) of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene (SCN4A) alpha subunit. Phenotypes of 12 family members ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Schoser BG,Schröder JM,Grimm T,Sternberg D,Kress W

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with transthyretin amyloidosis who presented with multifocal mononeuropathies with features of demyelination on nerve conduction studies, a constellation of findings not previously described in amyloid polyneuropathy. Genetic testing revealed a valine122isoleucine mutation in the coding region of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Briemberg HR,Amato AA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle cells are hypertrophied by mechanical stresses, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. Two signaling pathways, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt to target of rapamycin (TOR) and extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase (MEK) to extracellular signal-regulated kinase...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sasai N,Agata N,Inoue-Miyazu M,Kawakami K,Kobayashi K,Sokabe M,Hayakawa K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantation of normal muscle precursor cells (mpc) for treatment for inherited myopathies such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy is in clear need of improvement to become practicable, but few variables have been studied comparatively. Here, we report the first quantitative estimate of the effectiveness of implanting mpc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Morgan JE,Fletcher RM,Partridge TA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A careful monitoring of the accuracy of diagnosis in six cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome has shown that a substantial proportion of these patients initially diagnosed as having Guillain-Barre syndrome on the basis of characteristic clinical findings and an elevated level of protein in the spinal fluid had a neuropath...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Feit H,Tindall RS,Glasberg M

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired neuromyotonia is characterized by hyperexcitability of motor nerves resulting in continuous muscle fiber activity. It occurs most often as a paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with cancers of the immune system. Antibodies against voltage-gated potassium channels (VGKCs) have been detected in some patients. P...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lahrmann H,Albrecht G,Drlicek M,Oberndorfer S,Urbanits S,Wanschitz J,Zifko UA,Grisold W

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians who use electromyographic (EMG) signals to help determine the presence or absence of abnormality in a muscle often, with varying degrees of success, evaluate sets of motor unit potentials (MUPs) qualitatively and/or quantitatively to characterize the muscle in a clinically meaningful way. The resulting musc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pino LJ,Stashuk DW,Boe SG,Doherty TJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although there are numerous protocols to adjust the amplitude of the Hoffmann reflex (H-reflex) relative to the size of the direct motor response (M-response), the optimal stimulating location has not been described. We sought to determine the optimal positioning of the stimulating cathode when evoking the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Özyurt MG,Shabsog M,Dursun M,Türker KS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00