Pain in SCN4A Mutated P.A1156T muscle sodium channelopathy-a postal survey.

abstract：:Modern neuromuscular electrodiagnosis (EDX) and neuromuscular ultrasound (NMUS) require a universal language for effective communication in clinical practice and research and, in particular, for teaching young colleagues. Therefore, the AANEM and the IFCN have decided to publish a joint glossary as they feel the need ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dengler R,de Carvalho M,Shahrizaila N,Nodera H,Vucic S,Grimm A,Padua L,Schreiber S,Kneiser MK,Hobson-Webb LD,Boon AJ,Smith BE,Litchy WJ,Li Y,Lenihan M,Thompson VB,Stalberg E,Sanders DB,Kincaid JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four adult albino rats were injected with tetanus toxin into the right gastrocnemius muscle and then subjected to sustained dorsiflexion of the right ankle joint for 2 to 14 days. Histologic examinations of the soleus after this procedure showed myopathic changes, characterized by variations in fiber diameters,...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mizuno Y,Chou SM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sepsis often causes diaphragm contractile dysfunction. Dihydropyridine receptors (DHPRα1s and DHPRα1c) and ryanodine receptors (RyR1, RyR2, and RyR3) are essential for excitation-contraction coupling in striated muscles. However, their expression in diaphragm during sepsis have not been explored. METHODS:...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Jiao GY,Hao LY,Gao CE,Chen L,Sun XF,Yang HL,Li Y,Dai YN

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In muscle of whole animals, pituitary growth hormone, the thyroid hormones, and insulin are major growth-promoting hormones, and the glucocorticoids have significant catabolic actions. At the cellular level the primary anabolic hormones for cultured myoblasts are the somatomedins (insulin-like growth factors) and fibr...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Florini JR

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Symptoms often return in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) who are treated with a local corticosteroid injection. We aimed to determine prognostic factors for a successful long-term outcome. METHODS:We prospectively followed 113 patients who received an injection for CTS. Clinical, electrophysiol...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Meys V,Thissen S,Rozeman S,Beekman R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Information related to the long-term follow-up of neuropathy in patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy after liver transplantation is still scarce. METHODS:We describe the neuropathic features of 3 patients with the transthyretin Val30Met mutation. Each patient underwent liver transplantation at an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Koike H,Hashimoto R,Tomita M,Kawagashira Y,Iijima M,Nakamura T,Watanabe H,Kamei H,Kiuchi T,Sobue G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral neuropathy marked by reduced nerve conduction velocities was found in four unrelated children, between the ages of 15 months and 9 years, whose autopsies revealed Leigh's subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy. Sural nerve biopsies disclosed primary demyelination and remyelination, as well as loss of myel...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Goebel HH,Bardosi A,Friede RL,Kohlschütter A,Albani M,Siemes H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed physiogenomic analyses to investigate the relationship between myalgia and selected polymorphisms in serotonergic genes, based on their involvement with pain perception and transduction of nociceptive stimuli. We screened 195 hypercholesterolemic, statin-treated patients, all of whom received either atorva...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ruaño G,Thompson PD,Windemuth A,Seip RL,Dande A,Sorokin A,Kocherla M,Smith A,Holford TR,Wu AH

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a comprehensive model of spastic hypertonia based on clinical neurophysiology and validated using experimental data obtained from the pendulum test of the leg in 8 healthy volunteers and 15 spastic patients. This nonlinear computational model includes mechanical parameters and a stretch reflex representatio...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Le Cavorzin P,Poudens SA,Chagneau F,Carrault G,Allain H,Rochcongar P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enable the quantitative assessment of peripheral nerve structure and function, we determined the normal values for sural nerve hydration structure as measured by magnetic resonance proton imaging, and for neurological function with scores for neuropathic symptoms, signs, and nerve conduction properties. Normal huma...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eaton RP,Sibbitt WL Jr,Bicknell JM,King MK,Griffey RH,Sibbitt RR

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by autoantibodies against presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels that impair neuromuscular transmission. Malignancies, especially small cell lung cancer (SCLC), have been associated with LEMS and account for approximately 60% of cases...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Wang C,Chen S,Feng B,Guan Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bariatric surgical procedures are increasingly common. In this review, we characterize the neurologic complications of such procedures, including their mechanisms, frequency, and prognosis. Literature review yielded 50 case reports of 96 patients with neurologic symptoms after bariatric procedures. The most common pre...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Koffman BM,Greenfield LJ,Ali II,Pirzada NA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first dorsal interosseous (FDI) and abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscles are innervated by the same ulnar nerve, but studies have shown that the former is much more severely affected in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In this study, threshold tracking was used to investigate whether membrane properties differ betwe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bae JS,Sawai S,Misawa S,Kanai K,Isose S,Kuwabara S

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Muscle-fiber loss is a characteristic of many progressive neuromuscular disorders. Over the past decade, identification of a growing number of apoptosis-associated factors and events in pathological skeletal muscle provided increasing evidence that apoptotic cell-death mechanisms account significantly for muscle-fiber...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Tews DS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-protein isoform expression in hereditary dystrophic chicken skeletal muscle was compared with that in normal chicken muscle during postnatal development by immunocytochemical and immunoblot methods. In the pectoralis muscle (PM) of both normal and dystrophic chicken, slow- and fast-type C-proteins were coexpressed i...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Obinata T,Shinbo K

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

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：:To study noninvasively multiple descending volleys on alpha motoneurons, we used a 30-50% maximum H-reflex in the wrist flexor muscle conditioned by a subthreshold magnetic stimulus of the contralateral motor cortex as a parameter of motoneuronal excitability in seven neurologically healthy subjects. The time interval...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： van der Linden C,Bruggeman R

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the myelin protein zero gene (MPZ) are associated with certain demyelinating neuropathies, and in particular with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B (CMT1B), Dejerine-Sottas syndrome, and congenital hypomyelination. MPZ mutations affecting the protein's transmembrane domain are generally associated with ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Eggers SD,Keswani SC,Melli G,Cornblath DR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix of human peripheral nerve, which is mainly basement membrane and fibrillar collagen, has been prepared by a procedure involving extensive detergent extraction of isolated endoneurium and perineurium obtained from various nerves. The ultrastructure of the isolated nerve extracellular matrix was...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Johnson PC,Duhamel RC,Meezan E,Brendel K

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) is a standard diagnostic procedure in myasthenia gravis (MG). Although RNS sensitivity is highest in weak muscles, RNS is easier to perform in distal muscles that are often not affected. Twenty-five patients with MG were assessed to compare the sensitivity of RNS of the nasalis muscl...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Niks EH,Badrising UA,Verschuuren JJ,Van Dijk JG

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hindlimb ischemia for 4 h, followed by reperfusion, resulted in necrosis of most soleus muscle in euthyroid rats, whereas only slight damage occurred in hypothyroid rats. Muscle repair after transection of the tibialis anterior muscle of hypothyroid rats showed delayed debris removal, initial retardation of myotube fo...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ozawa J,Kawamata S,Kurosaki T,Iwamizu Y,Matsuura N,Abiko S,Kai S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The risk of cancer in patients diagnosed with myotonic dystrophy (DM) is reported for the homogeneous Utah population. METHODS:Clinical data accessed from the largest Utah healthcare providers have been record-linked to the Utah Population Database, a population-based resource also linked to the Utah Canc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Abbott D,Johnson NE,Cannon-Albright LA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an adult-onset motor neuron disease caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the androgen receptor gene. The aim of this study was to verify whether urinary 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), an oxidative stress marker, is a biomarker for SBMA. METHODS:We measured th...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mano T,Katsuno M,Banno H,Suzuki K,Suga N,Hashizume A,Tanaka F,Sobue G

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical and spinal somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) were recorded in healthy individuals following stimulation of digits I, III, and V with an intensity below discomfort level. Peak latency of the earliest cortical negativity (N1) was found to be the most consistent and easily measured parameter, whereas a spina...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kwast-Rabben O,Libelius R,Heikkilä H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Venous access for therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in myasthenia gravis (MG) can be achieved by central venous catheters (CVC) or peripheral veins (PV), and the preferred method varies among providers. We evaluated our institutional experience with TPE venous access method and complications. METHODS:We r...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guptill JT,Oakley D,Kuchibhatla M,Guidon AC,Hobson-Webb LD,Massey JM,Sanders DB,Juel VC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During postnatal development of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle, sodium withdrawal contractures were observed during the first 6 days after birth, and not after this time. In regenerating EDL muscles, zero-Na contractures were demonstrated: (1) 7 days after bupivacaine injection, but not 14 or 90 days after thi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Louboutin JP,Noireaud J

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the efficacy of different frequencies and intensities of magnetic stimulation for activating the quadriceps muscles; a painless method for stimulating the quadriceps would be useful in the rehabilitation of patients who have difficulty in voluntarily activating their muscles after injury or surgery. El...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kremenic IJ,Ben-Avi SS,Leonhardt D,McHugh MP

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed a marked prolongation of the transcranially evoked silent period during continuous intrathecal administration of high doses of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)B receptor agonist baclofen in a patient with generalized dystonia. Size of motor evoked potentials and central conduction time remained unchanged...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Siebner HR,Dressnandt J,Auer C,Conrad B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of differences in motor unit activity across contraction types and between hands suggests that the magnitude of fluctuations in motor output is only weakly related when these conditions are compared. Twenty right-handed young (24.1 +/- 5.3 years) and old (72.5 +/- 4.9 years) adults performed three levels ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Shinohara M,Keenan KG,Enoka RM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00