Visualization of the diaphragm muscle with ultrasound improves diagnostic accuracy of phrenic nerve conduction studies.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we evaluated the characteristics of the tibialis anterior muscle after sciatic nerve crush and treatment with low-level laser therapy (LLLT) or the protein from natural latex (P1). METHODS:We studied the following 6 groups of male Wistar rats: control (CG); exposed nerve (EG); injured nerve ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Muniz KL,Dias FJ,Coutinho-Netto J,Calzzani RA,Iyomasa MM,Sousa LG,Santos TT,Teles Vde O,Watanabe IS,Fazan VP,Issa JP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we noninvasively evaluated skeletal muscle mitochondrial capacity, muscle-specific endurance, and energy/fatigue feelings in persons with Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) and able-bodied controls (AB). METHODS:Forearm mitochondrial capacity was measured in FRDA (n = 16) and AB (n = 10) study partici...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bossie HM,Willingham TB,Schoick RAV,O'Connor PJ,McCully KK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile botulism is a recently recognized cause of acute hypotonic paresis and respiratory failure in young infants. Electrophysiological testing has proven useful in early diagnosis in suspected cases by demonstrating abnormal neuromuscular transmission as is known to occur in botulism. Twenty-five infants with bac...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Cornblath DR,Sladky JT,Sumner AJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We adopted a proteomics-based approach to gain insights into phenotypic differences between A/J and B10.SJL murine dysferlinopathy models. METHODS:We optimized immunoblotting of dysferlin by preparing homogenates of the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle under several different conditions. We compared TA muscl...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mueller AL,Desmond PF,Hsia RC,Roche JA

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Few data exist on the feasibility and reliability of measuring muscular atrophy in 2 dimensions (2D) by ultrasonography (US) and elasticity with shear wave elastography (SWE) in spastic muscles. METHODS:Fourteen patients with chronic stroke took part in 2 intersession reliability experiments performed wit...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mathevon L,Michel F,Aubry S,Testa R,Lapole T,Arnaudeau LF,Fernandez B,Parratte B,Calmels P

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:The p.A1156T mutation alters the function of the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.4 on the muscle sarcolemma, causing a channelopathy without overt myotonia or periodic paralysis but with myalgic pain. METHODS:A postal survey was conducted to assess the prevalence and characteristics of pain and related ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Suokas K,Palmio J,Sandell S,Udd B,Hietaharju A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ulnar nerve displacement at the elbow causes overestimation of nerve conduction velocity. We hypothesized that this overestimation may cause false-negative results when the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) diagnostic criteria are used. METHODS:We investigated 9 ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Won SJ,Yoon JS,Kim JY,Kim SJ,Jeong JS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Phospholipids are essential components of cellular membranes and are closely associated with cellular functions, but relationships involving skeletal muscle phospholipid profiles and their physiological phenotypes have remained unclear. METHODS:We carried out comprehensive phospholipid analyses using liqu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Senoo N,Miyoshi N,Kobayashi E,Morita A,Tanihata J,Takeda S,Miura S

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) and striated muscle antibodies (StrAbs) are found frequently in myasthenia gravis (MG) patients with thymoma. In this study we aimed to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of these antibodies for thymoma in patients with MG. METHO...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Choi Decroos E,Hobson-Webb LD,Juel VC,Massey JM,Sanders DB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compound muscle action potential (M(MAX)) during a maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) may be measured to determine if the motor nerve has been supramaximally stimulated during the interpolated twitch technique (ITT). Ten males performed isometric knee extension MVCs. M(MAX) for the vastus medialis was recorded du...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Berger MJ,Watson BV,Doherty TJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 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 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：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：INTRODUCTION:Thymectomy is required for the treatment of thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis (MG). However, MG may develop only after thymectomy, a condition known as post-thymectomy MG. This study aimed to investigate the risk factors for post-thymectomy MG in patients with thymoma. METHODS:We retrospectively identi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kim A,Choi SJ,Kang CH,Lee S,Son H,Kim JA,Shin JY,Kim SM,Hong YH,Sung JJ

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a chronic, immune-mediate, peripheral myelinopathy. Inherent in its name, MMN implies involvement of two or more motor nerves. We report three patients with weakness and partial motor conduction block restricted to a single nerve and localized to sites that are not at risk for entr...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Felice KJ,Goldstein JM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local cooling of the muscle resulted in significant increases in M wave surface areas in patients with ALS, myasthenia gravis, the Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and also in controls. The most striking increases were seen in patients with early ALS who had minimal lower motor neuron involvement and/or little defec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Denys EH

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to describe the electrophysiological progression rate of chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) and look into the potential role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genetic susceptibility in its development. METHODS:We recruited 57 patients with CIAP (mean age at diagnosis 67, mean follow-up ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Zis P,Sarrigiannis PG,Artemiadis A,Skarlatou V,Hadjivassiliou M

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the previously demonstrated heterogeneity of myosin heavy chain (MHC) in type 2B fibers of the superficial portion of the lateral gastrocnemius (SLG) muscle of the rat may be due to presence of type 2D/X fibers. Immunohistochemical identification of MHC heterogeneit...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sawchak JA,Leung B,Shafiq SA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle makes up the largest tissue volume of the body, yet its size makes muscle-specific therapy difficult. This becomes particularly relevant when approaches to gene therapy for inherited myopathies are evaluated. Thus, a mechanism to target constructs or pharmaceuticals to muscle following intravenous injection wou...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Samoylova TI,Smith BF

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:The pathophysiology of hepatic neuropathy is poorly understood, but membrane depolarization due to a toxic inhibition of oxidative metabolism has been proposed. We investigated the relationship between nerve excitability properties, nerve dysfunction, and liver function in 11 pretransplant patients, the majority of wh...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ng K,Lin CS,Murray NM,Burroughs AK,Bostock H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We evaluated diagnostic value of sensory tests during recovery from iatrogenic sensory neuropathy using intraoperatively verified nerve injury with subjective symptoms as gold standard. METHODS:Inferior alveolar nerves were monitored neurophysiologically throughout mandibular osteotomy in 19 patients. Sen...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Teerijoki-Oksa T,Forssell H,Jääskeläinen SK

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although paraspinal muscle fibrillations and positive sharp waves (PSWs) are used to help identify neuromuscular disorders, the frequency of these abnormalities in normal subjects is uncertain. We performed lumbosacral paraspinal electromyography in 65 normal subjects. Twenty-seven (42%) had fibrillations and/or PSWs,...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nardin RA,Raynor EM,Rutkove SB

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of initiation time of nerve expansion after nerve transection on the induction of ODC activity and Schwann cell proliferation in nerve tissue under Wallerian degeneration. The levels of ODC activity and Schwann cell proliferation decreased as the initiation time of nerve expansion was delayed aft...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ohkaya S,Hibasami H,Hirata H,Sasaki H,Morita A,Matsumoto M,Uchida A,Nakashima K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central fatigue is a subjective phenomenon which can be examined using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). To assess central fatigue, we compared TMS and peripheral electrical stimulations in patients with central nervous system (CNS) lesions and controls before and after an exhaustive task. The recovery times of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Liepert J,Kotterba S,Tegenthoff M,Malin JP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) received immune globulin intravenous, 10% caprylate/chromatography purified (IGIV-C, Gamunex; n=59) or placebo (n=58) every 3 weeks for up to 24 weeks (first period) in a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, response-conditional, crossover stu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bril V,Katzberg H,Donofrio P,Banach M,Dalakas MC,Deng C,Hanna K,Hartung HP,Hughes RA,Latov N,Merkies IS,van Doorn PA,ICE Study Group.

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to know the effects of prolonged repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) when it is used in neurophysiological studies. RNS with up to 100 supramaximal stimuli was given to the median, ulnar, and peroneal nerves of normal subjects and the ulnar nerves of subjects with early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (AL...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Baumann F,Henderson RD,Tremayne F,Hutchinson N,McCombe PA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00