Function of death-associated protein 1 in proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis of chicken satellite cells.

abstract：:Genetically homozygous line 413 dystrophic chickens were given twice-daily intraperitoneal injections of solutions containing branched-chain amino acids (BCCA-leucine, valine, isoleucine) either alone or in combination; and their alpha-ketoacid analogs (alpha-ketoisocaproic and alpha-ketoisovaleric acids). Another tri...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hudecki MS,Pollina CM,Heffner RR

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possible role of extracellular matrix in specifying the expression of superfast myosin during cat jaw muscle regeneration. Equal proportions of muscle tissue from jaw and limb were minced together after killing cellular elements from one source. We allowed the mince to regenerate in the bed of a fa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hoh JF,Hughes S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this work was to determine the effect of chronic alcohol exposure on peripheral nerves in a nutritionally balanced rat model of alcoholism. METHODS:Three different strains of adult male rats were pair-fed for 8 weeks with isocaloric liquid diets containing 0% or 37% ethanol. Nerve conduction st...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mellion ML,Nguyen V,Tong M,Gilchrist J,De La Monte S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a B-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. B-cell-activating factor (BAFF) is a major factor in B-cell development and activation. In this study we investigated serum BAFF levels in MG patients. METHODS:We compared the serum BAFF levels of 20 MG patients with gender-matched healthy co...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kang SY,Kang CH,Lee KH

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Improving axonal outgrowth and remyelination is crucial for peripheral nerve regeneration. Miconazole appears to enhance remyelination in the central nervous system. In this study we assess the effect of miconazole on axonal regeneration using a sciatic nerve crush injury model in rats. METHODS:Fifty Spra...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lin T,Qiu S,Yan L,Zhu S,Zheng C,Zhu Q,Liu X

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven 2-day-old golden retriever pups were given focal intramuscular injections of a first generation adenovirus-dystrophin minigene construct and adenovirus-beta-galactosidase construct as a 2:1 mixture into the left anterior tibial muscle. The spread of transgene expression within the anterior tibial muscle was comp...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： O'Hara AJ,Howell JM,Taplin RH,Fletcher S,Lloyd F,Kakulas B,Lochmüller H,Karpati G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP), showing an early-onset and a fatal outcome before age 30. Transthyretin (TTR) gene analysis showed one point mutation (T-->C change) in the second base of codon 55, and the corresponding amino acid substitution of proline (Pro) for leucine (Leu) was confir...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Yamamoto K,Hsu SP,Yoshida K,Ikeda S,Nakazato M,Shiomi K,Cheng SY,Furihata K,Ueno I,Yanagisawa N

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both high and low body mass index (BMI) have been reported as risk factors for ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE), and a high BMI as a risk factor for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). To determine whether the extremes of BMI are risk factors for UNE or CTS, and whether BMI affects calculation of median and ulnar motor n...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Landau ME,Barner KC,Campbell WW

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Calpain 3 (C3) is the only muscle-specific member of the calcium-dependent protease family. Although neither its physiological function nor its in vivo substrates are known, C3 must be an important protein for normal muscle function as mutations in the C3 gene result in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A. Previous...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guyon JR,Kudryashova E,Potts A,Dalkilic I,Brosius MA,Thompson TG,Beckmann JS,Kunkel LM,Spencer MJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

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：:We investigated whether the modulatory effects of segmental and descending inputs on the soleus H reflex are modified by postural conditions. Fourteen healthy volunteers received a transcranial magnetic stimulus (TMS) or percutaneous electrical stimulation of the posterior tibial nerve (PTN), preceding by 0 to 400 ms ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Goulart F,Valls-Solé J,Alvarez R

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the personal computer has simplified the process of quantitating sensory thresholds using various testing algorithms. We reviewed the technical aspects and reproducibility of different methods to determine threshold for light touch-pressure, vibration, thermal, and pain stimuli. Clinical uses and li...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chong PS,Cros DP

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) has potent survival-promoting effects on motor neurons in vitro and in vivo and may be effective in treating motor neuron diseases (MND). We investigated the effects of CT-1 treatment in wobbler mouse MND. Wobbler mice were randomly assigned to receive subcutaneously injected CT-1 (1 mg/kg, n = ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mitsumoto H,Klinkosz B,Pioro EP,Tsuzaka K,Ishiyama T,O'Leary RM,Pennica D

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate whether the frontal components of scalp somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) depend on the type of peripheral input, we compared scalp SEPs in response to electrical stimuli applied to: (i) the proximal phalanx of the thumb, involving both deep and cutaneous afferents; and (ii) the distal phalanx of the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Restuccia D,Valeriani M,Barba C,Le Pera D,Tonali P,Mauguière F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Immobilization induced by experimental denervation leads to rapid and progressive alterations in structural and biochemical properties of skeletal muscle. Real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a popular method of elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in muscle atroph...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nakao R,Yamamoto S,Yasumoto Y,Kadota K,Oishi K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to establish normal values of muscle thickness, ratio of muscle thickness to subcutaneous fat thickness, and muscle echo intensity in children between 11 weeks and 16 years of age. Transverse scans of four muscles were made by standardized real-time ultrasound examination. The scans were ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Scholten RR,Pillen S,Verrips A,Zwarts MJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 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:Diagnosis of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) remains uncertain when nerve conduction studies (NCS) fail to show demyelination. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective study of patients who presented with clinical criteria of CIDP in whom electrodiagnostic (EDx) criteria of definite o...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Devic P,Petiot P,Mauguiere F

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor involvement in acute herpes zoster is considered rare, but its incidence is unknown. In a sample of 40 patients with acute herpes zoster of varying severity, an abnormal electromyogram (EMG) (fibrillation, positive waves, high-frequency discharges) was found in 21 (53%), suggesting extension of inflammation to t...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Haanpää M,Häkkinen V,Nurmikko T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of altering (cross-reinnervation, CR) and/or eliminating (spinal isolation, SI) the activation-dependent neural input to the cat soleus for 8 months on its mechanical and biochemical properties were determined. The percent fast fibers was 0, 27, 38, and 54% for normal control (NC), NC-CR, SI, and SI-CR cat...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Roy RR,Eldridge L,Baldwin KM,Edgerton VR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chronic immune sensorimotor polyradiculopathy (CISMP) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) variant affecting both sensory and motor nerve roots without evidence of peripheral nerve demyelination. METHODS:We report a case series of 9 patients with CISMP, identified from 2 t...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Thammongkolchai T,Suhaib O,Termsarasab P,Li Y,Katirji B

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle-derived neurotrophins are thought to contribute to the adaptation of skeletal muscle to exercise, but the effects of brief exercise interventions on BDNF, NT-4/5, and trkB are not understood. RNA was extracted for RT-PCR from soleus and medial gastrocnemius of Sprague-Dawley rats exercised on a treadmill at spe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ogborn DI,Gardiner PF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to identify factors that could predict differences among individuals in the time to failure of a submaximal contraction. Twenty subjects (10 men, 25+/-6 years) supported an inertial load equivalent to 20% of the maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) force with the elbow flexor muscles for as...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Rudroff T,Christou EA,Poston B,Bojsen-Møller J,Enoka RM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with adult-onset acid maltase deficiency (Pompe's disease) were examined clinically and with computed tomography (CT). The CT scan showed early and severe involvement of the muscles of trunk and thighs, with selective sparing of the tensor fasciae latae, short head of biceps femoris, gracilis, and sartor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： de Jager AE,van der Vliet TM,van der Ree TC,Oosterink BJ,Loonen MC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man developed multifocal radicular pain. The diagnosis of Lyme neuroborreliosis was delayed until bifacial paresis and right lower abdominal wall weakness developed, prompting further evaluation. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination showed aseptic meningitis. Antibodies directed against Borrelia burgdor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Krishnamurthy KB,Liu GT,Logigian EL

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 137 ulnar nerves and abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscles in 70 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and correlated the results with ADM strength graded on the Medical Research Council (MRC) scale, to address the potential value of a standardized neurophysiological assessment of this nerve-mus...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： de Carvalho M,Swash M

更新日期：2000-03-01 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

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated the viscoelastic stress relaxation response before and after a 10-week hamstrings static stretch program. METHODS:The maximal range of motion (ROMmax ) and maximal torque (Torquemax ) were assessed before and after a 10-week stretching program. Six 30-s static stretches at a predetermined ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Peixoto GH,Andrade AG,Menzel HJ,Araújo SR,Pertence AE,Chagas MH

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 and Bax immunohistochemistry was examined in the skeletal muscle of rats after cutting the sciatic nerve, as a model of denervation and reinnervation, and in the anterior tibialis muscle of rats after an intramuscular injection of metoclopramide, as a model of necrosis and regeneration of muscle fibers, to bette...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Olivé M,Ferrer I

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00