Axonal excitability during ischemia in MELAS.

abstract：:Evaluation of the precise molecular dynamics of endplate maintenance and reorganization has been limited by the lack of available in vitro preparations. We describe an organ culture preparation of mouse diaphragm muscle which permits long-term maintenance of muscle viability. Spontaneous fibrillations, increased level...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wetzel DM,Salpeter MM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used Southern blot analysis and the polymerase chain reaction to analyze the tissue distribution of multiple mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions in a 45-year-old man with familial mitochondrial myopathy-Southern blots showed two major types of abnormal mtDNA with approximately 4- and 8-kilobase deletions in the ske...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kawashima S,Ohta S,Kagawa Y,Yoshida M,Nishizawa M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the influence of varying stimulation frequency on muscle output during isometric and dynamic contractions. Our findings demonstrate that the predictability of the force- and excursion-frequency relationships is extremely strong across stimulation intensities. There were no differences in the frequency whic...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Gregory CM,Bickel CS,Sharma N,Dixon WE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy associated with numerous viral infections. Recently, there have been many case reports describing the association between coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) and GBS, but much remains unknown about the strength of the association and the features ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Caress JB,Castoro RJ,Simmons Z,Scelsa SN,Lewis RA,Ahlawat A,Narayanaswami P

更新日期：2020-10-01 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:Stretch injuries in peripheral nerves can cause pain, paralysis, and loss of sensation. Although optimal treatment depends on the degree of injury, it is difficult to determine the severity of induced nerve damage. METHODS:The load-deformation curves of rat median nerves were generated from monotonic load...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sinclair EB,Andarawis-Puri N,Ros SJ,Laudier DM,Jepsen KJ,Hausman MR

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of personal variables as risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and their relationship to severity of nerve conduction abnormality, we studied 210 consecutive symptomatic CTS patients and 320 controls subjects without CTS symptomatology or known systemic disorders. The CTS group was classi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kouyoumdjian JA,Zanetta DM,Morita MP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation was applied daily for 20 minutes to denervated rabbit extensor digitorum longus muscle. One group was stimulated with short tetani, another with 1-Hz frequency, using isometric contractions for both. Tetanic stimulation induced severe fibrosis and is harmful to denervated muscle. One Hertz stimu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nix WA,Dahm M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the molecular defect causing Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) has been identified, the biochemical mechanisms that lead to muscle necrosis remain unclear. Exercise-related muscle metabolism in 9 mildly affected BMD patients was assessed by muscle 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((31)P MRS) during...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Tosetti M,Linsalata S,Battini R,Volpi L,Cini C,Presciutti O,Muntoni F,Cioni G,Siciliano G

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Psoriasis is a T-cell-mediated skin disorder with uncommon extracutaneous manifestations. Rare patients with psoriasis and myopathy have been reported. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective review of medical records of psoriasis patients seen at the Mayo Clinic during the period from January 1, 1996 to May...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Liewluck T,Ernste FC,Tracy JA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origins of impaired finger and hand function were examined in 10 stroke survivors with chronic spastic hemiparesis, with the intent of assessing whether mechanical restraint or altered neurophysiological control mechanisms are responsible for the well-known impairment of finger extension. Simultaneous extension of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kamper DG,Harvey RL,Suresh S,Rymer WZ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of chronic distal sensorimotor neuropathy are described in patients with neurofibromatosis. One had type 2 or central neurofibromatosis with a chromosome 22 deletion; the precise form of the disease was not established in the other two. A striking clinical feature was a diffuse nodular enlargement of the p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Thomas PK,King RH,Chiang TR,Scaravilli F,Sharma AK,Downie AW

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) is one of the major muscles involved in producing abnormal head position in cervical dystonia patients. This study tested whether doxorubicin chemomyectomy, direct injection of doxorubicin into the SCM to permanently remove muscle fibers, has the potential to be a nonsurgical, perm...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McLoon LK,Falkenberg JH,Dykstra D,Iaizzo PA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-wave was used to estimate the fastest motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) along the proximal segment (spinal cord to knee) of the axons of the tibial nerve in 65 control subjects, 8 patients with diabetic polyneuropathy, and 4 patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Terminal latencies and MNCV along the di...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Panayiotopoulos CP,Scarpalezos S,Nastas PE

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：: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：:The clinical, pathologic, and genetic findings of a boy with intranuclear nemaline rod myopathy are described. Serial muscle biopsies revealed myocyte nuclei containing inclusions that were immunoreactive for alpha-actinin and increased with age. Genetic analysis revealed a Val163Leu ACTA1 mutation previously associat...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kaimaktchiev V,Goebel H,Laing N,Narus M,Weeks D,Nixon R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of collagen types I, III, and V and fibronectin was investigated by means of immunofluorescent techniques in denervated and normal rat skeletal muscle. During a period of 28 days, a distinct atrophy developed in the denervated gastrocnemius muscle and was accompanied by an increase in types I and III ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Salonen V,Lehto M,Kalimo M,Penttinen R,Aro H

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to evaluate the ultrasound (US) morphological changes of sural nerves (SNs) of uremic patients on hemodialysis. METHODS:Sixty-six SNs in 33 uremic patients were examined by 22-MHZ high-frequency US and routine nerve conduction studies (NCS), and 76 SNs in 38 controls were also ex...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wei M,Zhu J,Wang N,Xue Q,Liu F,Hu B,Fang J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) metabolism was studied in muscle from juvenile and adult dogs with congenital myasthenia gravis (CMG) and their unaffected littermates. Although the amount of AChR in the junctional region of innervated CMG muscle fibers was 25% of normal, or less, denervation of CMG fibers resulted in th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oda K,Lennon VA,Lambert EH,Palmer AC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frog muscles bathed in solutions equilibrated with 0.5%-2.0% halothane develop large contractures when cooled to 2-4 degrees C. These halothane-cooling contractures (HCC) are dose dependent and reproducible; they are potentiated by lidocaine (5 mM), abolished by procaine (5 mM), and partially inhibited by procainamide...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Suarez-Kurtz G,Sudo RT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The molecular mechanism of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) remains unknown. Autophagy impairment, described in autoimmune diseases, is a key process in myofiber protein degradation flux and muscle integrity and has not been studied in IMNM. METHODS:Muscle biopsies from patients with IMNM (n = ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Girolamo F,Lia A,Annese T,Giannini M,Amati A,D'Abbicco D,Tampoia M,Virgintino D,Ribatti D,Serlenga L,Iannone F,Trojano M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several monoclonal antibodies (mcAbs) elicited against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) from Torpedo react also with skeletal muscle AChR. Such mcAbs were used to define antigenic determinants on muscle AChR and to elucidate their effect on muscle AChR functions. Primary chick muscle cultures were used as a...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Souroujon MC,Mochly-Rosen D,Gordon AS,Fuchs S

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We describe the nerve ultrasound findings in patients with type II diabetes mellitus who have neuropathic symptoms and signs. METHODS:Fifty-five healthy controls and 44 diabetic patients underwent clinical, sonographic, and electrophysiological evaluation. Patients were studied at a mean of 14.3 years aft...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pitarokoili K,Kerasnoudis A,Behrendt V,Labedi A,Ayzenberg I,Gold R,Yoon MS

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Repetitive loading of the low back tissues induces tension relaxation with a corresponding variation in the myoelectric response of the neuromuscular system, which may influence low back health. The purpose of this study was to observe trunk muscle activities before and after a passive cyclic trunk flexion...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Olson MW

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nerve enlargement (NE) is described in inflammatory and inherited neuropathies. It is commonly multifocal and moderate in the former and homogeneous and generalized in the latter. We describe 4 cases of massive NE in inflammatory neuropathies. METHODS:Patients presented with symptoms of polyneuropathy tha...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Grimm A,Schubert V,Axer H,Ziemann U

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:A large Swedish family with members affected by progressive external ophthalmoplegia with hypogonadism were followed-up and reviewed. Hypogonadism included delayed sexual maturation, primary amenorrhea, early menopause, and testicular atrophy. Cataracts, cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, hypoacusia, pes cavus, tremor, pa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Melberg A,Arnell H,Dahl N,Stålberg E,Raininko R,Oldfors A,Bakall B,Lundberg PO,Holme E

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sisters with a Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) duplication, who had an unusual CMT1A clinical phenotype, are described. The 63-year-old proband presented with dysesthesia on the inner side of the right leg. Neurological examination revealed a localized sensory disturbance in the lower extremities and m...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Murakami T,Oomori H,Hara A,Uyama E,Mita S,Uchino M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a reported patient with myopathic carnitine deficiency, addition of exogenous carnitine to muscle homogenates failed to correct palmitate oxidation, and oral carnitine was of no clinical benefit. In a muscle biopsy from this patient, we found that, in contrast to the marked deficiency of free carnitine (3% of norma...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Trevisan CP,Reichmann H,DeVivo DC,DiMauro S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00