Protein degradation in cultured skeletal muscle from Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.

abstract：:Piriformis syndrome (PS) is a rare condition characterized by pain and paresthesia of the buttock, often radiating to the posterior thigh. A patient with sciatica that was clinically suspicious for PS, underwent diagnostic work-up. A diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with neurolymphomatosis (NL) was made. To ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ye BS,Sunwoo IN,Suh BC,Park JP,Shim DS,Kim SM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We investigated the effects of aerobic and resistance exercise in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). METHODS:Eighteen CIDP patients treated with subcutaneous immunoglobulin performed 12 weeks of aerobic exercise and 12 weeks of resistance exercise after a run-in period...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Markvardsen LH,Overgaard K,Heje K,Sindrup SH,Christiansen I,Vissing J,Andersen H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare cutaneous, aggressive tumor. Although it shares many neuroendocrine features with small cell lung carcinoma, it has only occasionally been reported with paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. METHODS:A healthy 67-year-old man developed acute ataxia, vertigo, and nausea. Sub...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pavolucci L,Giannini G,Giannoccaro MP,Foschini MP,Lang B,Avoni P,Tinuper P,Vincent A,Liguori R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 myotonic dystrophy or DM1 (Steinert's disease), which is the commonest muscular dystrophy in adults, has intrigued physicians for over a century. Unusual features, compared with other dystrophies, include myotonia, anticipation, and involvement of other organs, notably the brain, eyes, smooth muscle, cardiac co...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Machuca-Tzili L,Brook D,Hilton-Jones D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The current practice of single-fiber electromyography (SFEMG) requires that 20 fiber pairs with normal jitter be collected to exclude myasthenia gravis (MG). We applied principles of futility analysis from clinical trials in an attempt to reduce that requirement. METHODS:We utilized conditional power futi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Narayanaswami P,Pantoja-Galicia N,Betensky RA,Rutkove SB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study sought to estimate the global prevalence of transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTR-FAP). METHODS:Prevalence estimates and information supporting prevalence calculations was extracted from records yielded by reference-database searches (2005-2016), conference proceedings, and nonpee...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Schmidt HH,Waddington-Cruz M,Botteman MF,Carter JA,Chopra AS,Hopps M,Stewart M,Fallet S,Amass L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using poststimulus time histograms, it has been reported that stimulation of the median nerve at the elbow produces a monosynaptic EPSP in voluntarily active single motoneurons of the human biceps brachii. The present study was undertaken to: (i) determine whether such stimulation could evoke a reproducible reflex res...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Miller TA,Mogyoros I,Burke D

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Premotor potentials (PMPs) precede compound muscle action potentials evoked from the second lumbrical muscle after median nerve stimulation. Although PMP has been identified as a median sensory nerve action potential, few reports have documented the significance of PMP parameters for diagnosing carpal tunn...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kodama M,Sasao Y,Tochikura M,Kasahara T,Koyama Y,Aono K,Fujii C,Hanayama K,Takahashi O,Kobayashi Y,Masakado Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three well-characterized antimyosin heavy chain monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) were used as immunocytochemical reagents to study myosin isoform expression in relationship to adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) defined fiber types in human muscle. The biopsy specimens were from patients with neurogenic muscle disease whos...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sawchak JA,Lewis S,Shafiq SA

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Recent studies on the distribution of labeled endogenous proteins in the experimental neuropathies induced by streoptozotocin diabetes, galactose feeding, zinc pyridinethione, 2,5-hexanedione, acrylamide, and p-bromophenylacetylurea (BPAU) have demonstrated an impaired build up of retrogradely transported material der...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Jakobsen J,Brimijoin S,Sidenius P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absence of α-actinin-3, encoded by the ACTN3 "speed gene," is associated with poorer sprinting performance in athletes and a slowing of relaxation in fast-twitch muscles of Actn3 knockout (KO) mice. Our first aim was to investigate, at the individual-fiber level, possible mechanisms for this slowed relaxation. Our sec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chan S,Seto JT,Houweling PJ,Yang N,North KN,Head SI

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Myophosphorylase deficiency (McArdle's disease) may present with episodic renal failure following exertion. We present a case of adult-onset myophosphorylase deficiency in which recurrent bouts of renal failure could not be associated with any exertional events until a tonic seizure was witnessed after the fourth epis...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Walker AR,Tschetter K,Matsuo F,Flanigan KM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic studies were analyzed in patients with neuropathy associated with IgM monoclonal proteins, 7 with anti-myelin associated glycoprotein reactivity (MAG) and 7 nonreactive to MAG. The findings were distinctly different in the two groups. The electrodiagnostic studies of all the MAG-reactive patients had...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kelly JJ Jr

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The distribution of clinical and neurophysiological abnormalities in patients with early amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was investigated in an attempt to delineate patterns of disease spread. METHODS:Clinical and electrodiagnostic data were collected from 150 ALS patients and analyzed based on the cl...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Simon NG,Lomen-Hoerth C,Kiernan MC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempts to gain a better understanding of the primary cause of doxorubicin myotoxicity to aid in the development of a protocol to increase its effectiveness in treating muscle spasm diseases. The time course of acute injury to the orbicularis oculi muscle after injection of doxorubicin into the eyelids of ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： McLoon LK,Luo XX,Wirtschafter J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical, morphologic, and biophysical studies support the concept that the red blood cell (RBC) membrane is altered in both myotonic muscular dystrophy (MyD) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). These studies have not identified a primary metabolic defect that would explain the various alterations of membrane pr...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Plishker GA,Appel SH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with previous polio were studied. The concentration of energy-related metabolites and energy charge was measured from the vastus lateralis muscle, as was isometric muscle strength of knee extension. Cross-sectional area of the quadriceps femoris muscle was calculated from magnetic resonance imaging. Re...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nordgren B,Falck B,Stålberg E,Ronquist G,Waldenström A,Ahlström H,Hemmingson A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Glucocorticosteroids (GC) are effective in slowing weakness in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHODS:This is a multisite, 1-year, open-label trial of twice-weekly prednisolone (5 mg/kg/dose) in infants/young boys (0.4-2.4 years) with DMD. We compared changes in Bayley III Scales of Infant D...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Connolly AM,Zaidman CM,Golumbek PT,Cradock MM,Flanigan KM,Kuntz NL,Finkel RS,McDonald CM,Iannaccone ST,Anand P,Siener CA,Florence JM,Lowes LP,Alfano LN,Johnson LB,Nicorici A,Nelson LL,Mendell JR,MDA DMD Clinical Resea

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we sought to determine the cross-sectional area (CSA) of peripheral nerves in patients with distinct subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:Ulnar and median nerve ultrasound was performed in 78 ALS patients [classic, n = 21; upper motor neuron dominant (UMND), n = 14; lower...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Schreiber S,Abdulla S,Debska-Vielhaber G,Machts J,Dannhardt-Stieger V,Feistner H,Oldag A,Goertler M,Petri S,Kollewe K,Kropf S,Schreiber F,Heinze HJ,Dengler R,Nestor PJ,Vielhaber S

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by absence of the subsarcolemmal protein dystrophin, present in skeletal muscles and cardiomyocytes. We hypothesized that progressive respiratory and left ventricular (LV) insufficiencies in DMD could be parallel and interrelated phenomena. METHODS:We con...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Khokhar A,Nair A,Midya V,Kumar A,Sinharoy A,Ahmad TA,Abu-Hasan M,Mondal P

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sarcopenia likely comprises muscle fiber denervation and re-innervation, resulting in clustering of muscle fibers of the same type (classified by myosin heavy chain isoform composition). Development of methodology to quantitatively evaluate clustering of muscle fibers according to fiber type is necessary. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Greising SM,Medina-Martínez JS,Vasdev AK,Sieck GC,Mantilla CB

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A middle-aged male developed a right posterior femoral cutaneous neuralgia that persisted for 10 years without any associated neurologic, electrophysiologic, or radiologic findings. Five years after onset, surgical exploration of the subgluteal area identified a venous malformation surrounding the nerve. The syndrome ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chutkow JG

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Measurement precision and accuracy of spinal reflexes plays an essential role in the clinical neurological examination. Reflexes are conventionally assessed either electromyographically or with rating scales. In this study we compared objective kinematic T-reflex and subjective assessments of patellar refl...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dafkin C,Green A,Kerr S,Veliotes D,McKinon W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have suggested the presence of central nervous system involvement manifesting as cognitive impairment in diseases traditionally confined to the peripheral nervous system. The aim of this review is to highlight the character of clinical, genetic, neurofunctional, cognitive, and psychiatric deficits in n...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： D'Angelo MG,Bresolin N

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The latency fluctuation of single motor unit potentials (MUPH) in the H-reflex is greater than the latency fluctuation of MUPs in the direct (MUPM) and recurrent (MUPF) responses. This has been attributed to the variability in the impulse generation at the site of nerve stimulation, and to the variation in the synapti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Soliven B,Maselli RA

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Contradictory reports of the myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of adult human suprahyoid muscles leave unresolved the extent to which these muscles express developmental and unconventional MHC. METHODS:By immunohistochemistry, separation sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PA...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Luo Q,Douglas M,Burkholder T,Sokoloff AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00