Scanning electron microscopic study of denervated and reinnervated neuromuscular junction.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) and functional electrical stimulation (FES) of paralyzed muscles on type IV collagen content and proteins involving its degradation, which is initiated by matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and -9 and regulated by their tissue inhibitors (...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Koskinen SO,Kjaer M,Mohr T,Sørensen FB,Suuronen T,Takala TE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve guides seeded with Schwann cells (SCs) promote axonal regeneration in peripheral nerve lesions. We examined the applicability of bioluminescent imaging (BLI) for monitoring the fate of SCs in nerve guides after implantation. Rat SCs were transfected with the firefly luciferase (Fluc) gene and subsequently seeded...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ma MS,Van Dam G,Meek M,Boddeke E,Copray S

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:There were 31 Duchenne patients placed on overnight mouth intermittent positive pressure ventilation for severe respiratory insufficiency at the average age of 19.9 years. Most patients had vital capacities less than 200 cc at their last evaluations. Of these, 23 patients are alive at the average age of 27 years and l...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Bach JR,O'Brien J,Krotenberg R,Alba AS

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study compares the acute and chronic response of high-load resistance training (HL) to low-load resistance training with low blood flow restriction (LL-BFR) pressure. METHODS:Participants completed elbow flexion with either HL or LL-BFR or nonexercise. In the chronic study, participants in the HL and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kim D,Loenneke JP,Ye X,Bemben DA,Beck TW,Larson RD,Bemben MG

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we compare the ultrasound features in the median nerve in patients with different types of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and hereditary neuropathies with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) as a typical entrapment neuropathy. METHODS:Median nerve ultrasound and conduction studies were p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Schreiber S,Oldag A,Kornblum C,Kollewe K,Kropf S,Schoenfeld A,Feistner H,Jakubiczka S,Kunz WS,Scherlach C,Tempelmann C,Mawrin C,Dengler R,Schreiber F,Goertler M,Vielhaber S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anterior interosseous nerve syndrome and ulnar neuropathy, paralysis or weakness of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) muscles has been shown to vary according to the degree of involvement of the median and ulnar nerves, respectively. We traced these nerves in 50 cadaveric specimens in which each FDP was complete...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oh CS,Won HS,Lee KS,Chung IH,Kim SM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jitter after axonal microstimulation in the masseter muscle was studied in 30 consecutive patients (12 women) with myasthenia gravis (MG). Patients' mean age was 42.3 (12-75), median disease duration was 3 months (1-72), and onset was ocular (15 cases), oculobulbar (7), bulbar (6), or generalized (2). There were 23 ne...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Khuraibet AJ,Rousseff RT,Behbehani R,al-Shubaili AF,Khan RA

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Variable-frequency stimulation trains (VFTs) that take advantage of the catchlike property of skeletal muscle have been shown to augment the force production of fatigued muscles compared with constant-frequency trains (CFTs). The present study is the first to report the force augmentation produced by VFTs after fatigu...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Binder-Macleod SA,Lee SC,Russ DW,Kucharski LJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:This study was designed to assess the effect of extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) exposure of the parotid gland on oxidative stress and some trace element levels in the facial nerves of rats. METHODS:Twelve male Wistar albino rats were divided into two groups, each consisting of 6 animals. The ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kavak S,Garca MF,Gecit I,Meral I,Cengiz N,Demir H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if chronic fatigue syndrome (CSF) is characterized by abnormalities in oxidative muscle metabolism. Patients with CFS according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria (n = 22) were compared to normal sedentary subjects (n = 15). CFS patients were also tested before and...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McCully KK,Natelson BH,Iotti S,Sisto S,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:We present three new and 14 retrospective cases of polyradiculopathy in sarcoidosis. Of these, 71% had weakness and 59% areflexia of the lower extremities, and 35% had sphincter dysfunction. Cases often were associated with central nervous system sarcoidosis. All cases involved thoracolumbar or lumbosacral roots, exce...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Koffman B,Junck L,Elias SB,Feit HW,Levine SR

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A low conductance calcium-activated K+ channel is thought to regulate the rate of firing of several excitable cells. In skeletal muscle the expression of this channel is under nerve control. Previously, we reported that axonal flow blockade of rat nerves, induced by colchicine, caused a transient increase in muscle ap...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Vergara C,Ramírez B,Behrens MI

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This investigation aimed to: (1) confirm whether women were more vulnerable to the negative neuromuscular adaptations elicited by muscle unloading and if so, (2) determine which physiological mechanism(s) explain those gender-related differences. METHODS:Healthy young men (20.7 ± 0.3 years) and women (20....

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Deschenes MR,McCoy RW,Mangis KA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The best treatment strategy for mild ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE) is not known, due to lack of trials comparing surgery vs conservative treatment. METHODS:We recruited patients with clinical symptoms and signs of mild UNE and an electrophysiologically or sonographically confirmed diagnosis. Patient...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pompe SM,Schreuder T,Teunissen LL,Visser LH,Beekman R

更新日期：2020-08-01 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:Anecdotal reports from families and care providers suggest a wide variation in services received by individuals with Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD). METHODS:We documented the type and frequency of health services received by individuals with DBMD using the Muscular Dystrophy Surveillance Tracki...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pandya SK,Campbell KA,Andrews JG,Meaney FJ,Ciafaloni E

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Valosin-containing protein (VCP) variants that affect muscle, bone, and the nervous system are termed multisystem proteinopathy. VCP myopathy is manifested as limb-girdle weakness, distal weakness and scapuloperoneal weakness. METHODS:We reviewed clinical, genetic, and muscle biopsy data from 6 members of...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Guo X,Zhao Z,Shen H,Qi B,Li N,Hu J

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:The epidemiology of cauda equina and conus medullaris lesions is not well known, and this study aimed to provide further information on this topic. In the period 1996-2004, patients fulfilling the clinical, electrodiagnostic, and radiological criteria for such lesions were identified. For cauda equina/conus medullaris...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Podnar S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although serum creatine kinase (CK) levels are frequently modestly elevated in patients with hypothyroid myopathy, elevations in serum CK to the levels usually seen in inflammatory myopathies or dystrophies are rare. We report a patient with progressive proximal weakness and a serum CK level of over 29,000 IU/L, in wh...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Scott KR,Simmons Z,Boyer PJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Antimitochondrial antibodies are autoantibodies detected in 90% of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) patients. Some PBC cases are complicated by myositis, which is difficult to confirm due to minimal histological evidence of inflammation in limb muscles. METHODS:Our aim was to determine the extent of inflam...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Uenaka T,Kowa H,Sekiguchi K,Nagata K,Ohtsuka Y,Kanda F,Toda T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An appreciation of the comparative functions of the corticospinal tract is of direct relevance to the understanding of how results from animal models can advance knowledge of the human motor system and its disorders. Two critical functions of the corticospinal tract are discussed: first, the role of descending project...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lemon RN,Griffiths J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conduction velocity of A delta fibers of the human peripheral nerves was measured by using pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials following CO2 laser stimulation. It was found to be approximately 9 m/s in the forearm as well as in the lower leg. Because conventional conduction study using electric stimulation re...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kakigi R,Endo C,Neshige R,Kuroda Y,Shibasaki H

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mutations in the guanosine diphosphate-mannose pyrophosphorylase-B gene (GMPPB) have been identified in congenital muscular dystrophies, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2T), and congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs); overall, 41 patients have been described. METHODS:Two patients presented with a myas...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Montagnese F,Klupp E,Karampinos DC,Biskup S,Gläser D,Kirschke JS,Schoser B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00