The accuracy of subjective clinical assessments of the patellar reflex.

abstract：:The Moberg Pick-Up Test is a standardized test for assessing hand dexterity. Although reduction of sensation in the hand occurs with aging, the effect of age on a subject's performance of the Moberg Pick-Up Test has not been examined. The primary goal of this study was to examine the impact of aging and, secondarily, ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Amirjani N,Ashworth NL,Gordon T,Edwards DC,Chan KM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) evoked by magnetic brain stimuli are larger if the subject provides a steady background voluntary contraction of the target muscle. This facilitation could be due either to cortical or spinal mechanisms, or both. Both magnetic and electrical stimuli given immediately after the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mills KR,Kimiskidis V

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we assessed the effect of paired stimuli on the latencies and amplitudes of the blink reflex. METHODS:Blink reflexes were performed with single and paired (5-ms interstimulus interval) stimuli in 47 patients. The changes in latencies between paired and single stimuli were calculated. RESULT...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rubin DI,Dimberg EL,Kennelly KD

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that the muscle fiber lysosome system plays a central role in the increased formation of autophagosomes and autolysosomes that occurs in the context of chloroquine-induced myopathy. The goal of this study was to characterize the contribution of receptor-mediated intracellular transport, partic...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Masuda T,Ueyama H,Nakamura K,Jikumaru M,Toyoshima I,Kumamoto T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to compare ultrasound echo intensity (EI) with high-resolution T1 -weighted MRI and to establish calibration equations to estimate percent intramuscular fat from EI. METHODS:Thirty-one participants underwent both ultrasound and MRI testing of 4 muscles: rectus femoris (RF); bicep...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Young HJ,Jenkins NT,Zhao Q,Mccully KK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New developments in the rapid diagnosis and treatment of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have led to growing enthusiasm for instituting DMD newborn screening (NBS) in the United States. Our group has been interested in developing clinical guidance to be implemented consistently in specialty care clinics ch...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kwon JM,Abdel-Hamid HZ,Al-Zaidy SA,Mendell JR,Kennedy A,Kinnett K,Cwik VA,Street N,Bolen J,Day JW,Connolly AM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Autosomal dominant haploinsufficiency of GATA2 causes monocytopenia and natural killer cell lymphopenia, resulting in predisposition to mycobacterial, fungal, and viral infections. METHODS:Herein we report on the clinical, serologic, electrophysiologic, and pathologic evaluations of a 29-year-old woman wi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kazamel M,Klein CJ,Benarroch EE,Patnaik MM,Tracy JA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach to the quantification of fiber type grouping is presented, in which the distribution of histochemical type in a muscle cross section is regarded as a realization of a binary Markov random field (BMRF). Methods for the estimation of the parameters of this model are discussed. The first order BMRF, which ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Venema HW

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:The American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) developed guidelines to formalize the ethical standards that neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic (EDx) physicians should observe in their clinical and scientific activities. Neuromuscular and EDx medicine is a subspecialty of medicine that ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Abel NA,De Sousa EA,Govindarajan R,Mayer MP,Simpson DA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Contradictory reports of the myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of adult human suprahyoid muscles leave unresolved the extent to which these muscles express developmental and unconventional MHC. METHODS:By immunohistochemistry, separation sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PA...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Luo Q,Douglas M,Burkholder T,Sokoloff AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The latency fluctuation of single motor unit potentials (MUPH) in the H-reflex is greater than the latency fluctuation of MUPs in the direct (MUPM) and recurrent (MUPF) responses. This has been attributed to the variability in the impulse generation at the site of nerve stimulation, and to the variation in the synapti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Soliven B,Maselli RA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) causes significant morbidity and impairment in critically ill patients. Recent advances in neuromuscular ultrasound (NMUS) allow evaluation of neuromuscular pathology early in critical illness. Here we review application of ultrasound in ICU-AW. MEDLINE-indexed articles w...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bunnell A,Ney J,Gellhorn A,Hough CL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate normal jitter in voluntarily activated extensor digitorum communis (EDC) and orbicularis oculi (OOc) muscles using a disposable concentric needle electrode (CNE). The EDC of 67 normal subjects (22 males and 45 females, mean age 35.5 +/- 10.2 years) and the OOc of 50 normal subject...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kouyoumdjian JA,Stålberg EV

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether initial muscle length influenced the extent of isometric force deficit following 20 in vitro lengthening contractions of the soleus muscle from Fischer 344 rats. Force deficit was evaluated following one of five protocols: (1) lengthening contractions from optimal mus...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gosselin LE,Burton H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Low-intensity electrical stimuli of digital nerves may generate a double peak potential (DPp), composed of a cathodal (caAP) and an anodal (anAP) potential in orthodromic recordings. METHODS:We studied the effects on caAP and anAP of stimuli of variable intensity, duration, and frequency. We also applied ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Leote J,Pereira P,Cabib C,Cipullo F,Valls-Sole J

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:To study causes of obturator neuropathy and to correlate them with outcome, we retrospectively studied patients seen at the Mayo Clinic electromyography (EMG) laboratory from 1975 through 1999 with a diagnosis of obturator neuropathy. Twenty-two patients with obturator neuropathy were identified. The clinical outcome ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sorenson EJ,Chen JJ,Daube JR

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:The reliability of motor unit number estimation (MUNE) for assessment of the long-term course of ALS is dependent on the reproducibility of the technique. We report our results with the statistical method of MUNE on the ulnar nerve/hypothenar muscle in 16 ALS patients who were studied on 52 occasions. On each occasion...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Olney RK,Yuen EC,Engstrom JW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recommendations for clinical research standards published in 2000 by a task force of the Medical Scientific Advisory Board (MSAB) of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) were largely successful in introducing greater uniformity in the recording and reporting of MG clinical trials. Recognizing that ch...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Benatar M,Sanders DB,Burns TM,Cutter GR,Guptill JT,Baggi F,Kaminski HJ,Mantegazza R,Meriggioli MN,Quan J,Wolfe GI,Task Force on MG Study Design of the Medical Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate possible influences of suprasegmental lesions on the masseter reflex. The masseter reflex was elicited in 54 patients with supratentorial (37 patients) or cerebellar (17 patients) lesions 3-11 days after the acute onset of clinical disease. Patients showing lesions within the p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hopf HC,Hinrichs C,Stoeter P,Urban PP,Marx J,Thömke F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Changes in subsynovial connective tissue (SSCT) in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients may result in altered dynamics; consequently, quantification of these dynamics might support objective diagnosis of CTS. METHODS:We measured and compared longitudinal excursion of the flexor digitorum superficialis an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Korstanje JW,Scheltens-De Boer M,Blok JH,Amadio PC,Hovius SE,Stam HJ,Selles RW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) are both autoimmune disorders that are rarely observed concurrently. We describe a patient who developed MGN nearly 20 years after the onset of CIDP, resulting in a secondary progression of his neuropathy. He respo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Smyth S,Menkes DL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic body myopathy (CBM) is characterized by proteinaceous inclusion bodies in muscle tissue. A 43-year-old woman presented with rapidly progressive weakness and dysphagia. Electromyography (EMG) elsewhere demonstrated lower-limb chronic partial denervation. Muscle biopsy showed fiber size variation without dia...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Krishnan AV,Pamphlett R,Burke D,Wills EJ,Kiernan MC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) subjects ≥5 years with nonsense mutations were followed for 48 weeks in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ataluren. Placebo arm data (N = 57) provided insight into the natural history of the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) and other endpoints. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McDonald CM,Henricson EK,Abresch RT,Florence JM,Eagle M,Gappmaier E,Glanzman AM,PTC124-GD-007-DMD Study Group.,Spiegel R,Barth J,Elfring G,Reha A,Peltz S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin is a chemotherapeutic agent prescribed for a variety of tumors. While undergoing treatment, patients exhibit frequent symptoms that suggest respiratory muscle weakness. Cancer patients can receive doxorubicin chemotherapy through either intravenous (IV) or intraperitoneal (IP) injections. We hypothesized t...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gilliam LA,Moylan JS,Callahan LA,Sumandea MP,Reid MB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we determined the reliability and validity of electrical impedance myography (EIM) in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). METHODS:We performed a prospective study of EIM on 16 bilateral limb and trunk muscles in 35 genetically defined and clinically affected FSHD patients (reliabi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Statland JM,Heatwole C,Eichinger K,Dilek N,Martens WB,Tawil R

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to determine the effects of acute overload exercise on mitochondrial DNA and the structure of skeletal muscles. Rats were forced to run for 20 min until reaching complete exhaustion. We detected the large-scale deletion (7052 bp) of mitochondrial DNA by the nested polymerase chain react...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sakai Y,Iwamura Y,Hayashi J,Yamamoto N,Ohkoshi N,Nagata H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Skeletal muscle oxidative capacity decreases and fatigability increases after spinal cord injury. Transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPARδ) promotes a more oxidative phenotype. METHODS:We asked whether PPARδ overexpression could ameliorate these deficits in the medial gastr...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kim JA,Roy RR,Zhong H,Alaynick WA,Embler E,Jang C,Gomez G,Sonoda T,Evans RM,Edgerton VR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00