A new stain for quantitative measurement of sprouting at neuromuscular junctions.

abstract：:Neuromyotonia or Isaacs' syndrome is a rare peripheral nerve hyperexcitability disorder caused by antibodies against potassium channels of myelinated axons. We present the high-density surface electromyographic (EMG) recordings of a patient with fasciculations and cramps due to neuromyotonia. To characterize the time ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kleine BU,Stegeman DF,Drost G,Zwarts MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyographic (EMG) recordings may serve an important role in predicting torque during repetitive activation of paralyzed muscle. We compared the initial M-wave to the subsequent M-waves of the same train under fatigued and recovered conditions in the paralyzed human soleus muscle. Sixteen individuals with chronic...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Chang YJ,Shields RK

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with demyelinating neurological disease, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or multiple sclerosis, contains factors that inhibit the excitatory Na+ current. Such antiexcitatory factors are occasionally also detectable in CSF from patients with other neurological diseases but were...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brinkmeier H,Seewald MJ,Wollinsky KH,Rüdel R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of extensive studies it is unclear whether impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), i.e., impaired glucose metabolism (IGM), causes diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) or chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP); the results and conclusions vary considerably in differ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dyck PJ,Dyck PJ,Klein CJ,Weigand SD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This was a multicenter, double-blind, randomized clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of electrical stimulation of denervated muscle (ESDM) on recovery of patients with peripheral nerve injuries. METHODS:We enrolled 38 patients with traumatic peripheral nerve injuries with axonal damage and clinical i...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Piccinini G,Cuccagna C,Caliandro P,Coraci D,Germanotta M,Pecchioli C,Padua L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this work was to determine the effect of chronic alcohol exposure on peripheral nerves in a nutritionally balanced rat model of alcoholism. METHODS:Three different strains of adult male rats were pair-fed for 8 weeks with isocaloric liquid diets containing 0% or 37% ethanol. Nerve conduction st...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mellion ML,Nguyen V,Tong M,Gilchrist J,De La Monte S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we aimed to clarify whether muscle ultrasound (US) of the forearm can be used to differentiate between patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis (s-IBM) and those with s-IBM-mimicking diseases. METHODS:We compared the echo intensity (EI) of the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) muscle an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Noto Y,Shiga K,Tsuji Y,Kondo M,Tokuda T,Mizuno T,Nakagawa M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nebulin is a giant actin-binding protein in the thin filament of the skeletal muscle sarcomere. Studies of nebulin interactions are limited by the size, complexity, and poor solubility of the protein. We divided the nebulin super-repeat region into a super-repeat panel, and studied nebulin/actin interactio...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Laitila J,Lehtonen J,Lehtokari VL,Sagath L,Wallgren-Pettersson C,Grönholm M,Pelin K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masseter muscle biopsies were obtained from nine patients undergoing orthognatic surgery or surgery for parotid tumors. A detailed enzyme-histochemical and immunocytochemical study of these muscles was performed using antibodies specific to the various isozymes of the myosin heavy chain (MHC) in order to identify the ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Butler-Browne GS,Eriksson PO,Laurent C,Thornell LE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic testing is rapidly becoming an increasingly significant part of the diagnostic armamentarium of neuromuscular clinicians. Although technically easy to order, the results of such testing, whether positive or negative, have potentially enormous consequences for the individual tested and for family members. As a ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Su X,Kang PB,Russell JA,Simmons Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate differences in contractile speed, force, and fatigability of the adductor pollicis muscle between 12 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 8 sedentary control subjects matched for age and gender. There were no differences between the patients with MS and control subjects...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： de Ruiter CJ,Jongen PJ,van der Woude LH,de Haan A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to translate, culturally adapt, and assess the Arabic version of the 15-item myasthenia gravis quality-of-life revised scale (MGQOL15R). METHODS:We assessed reliability with Cronbach α; reproducibility with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC); validity with Spearman correlations for myasthe...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Alanazy MH,Abuzinadah AR,Muayqil T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:When treating ocular myasthenia gravis (MG), the risk/benefit profile of corticosteroids is unclear, and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are not very effective. We examined the efficacy of topical naphazoline in the treatment of myasthenic blepharoptosis. METHODS:Sixty MG patients with blepharoptosis (32 ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nagane Y,Utsugisawa K,Suzuki S,Masuda M,Shimizu Y,Utsumi H,Uchiyama S,Suzuki N

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) evoked by magnetic brain stimuli are larger if the subject provides a steady background voluntary contraction of the target muscle. This facilitation could be due either to cortical or spinal mechanisms, or both. Both magnetic and electrical stimuli given immediately after the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mills KR,Kimiskidis V

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies using quantitative sensory testing (QST) often present incongruent results due to intra- and intersubject as well as interobserver variability which limit widespread use of the technique. Eliminating or reducing the factors responsible for this variability is of great interest, as it increases reliability and ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pavlaković G,Klinke I,Pavlaković H,Züchner K,Zapf A,Bachmann CG,Graf BM,Crozier TA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients with the limb-girdle variant of congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS) possess mutations in the human Dok-7 gene (DOK7). We identified six unrelated CMS patients with DOK7 mutations. Two patients, one mildly and the other moderately affected, were homozygous for the previously described 1263insC mutation. ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Anderson JA,Ng JJ,Bowe C,McDonald C,Richman DP,Wollmann RL,Maselli RA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiologic findings in thallium intoxication are usually untimely, limited in extent, and often uninformative. This report documents serial conduction and electromyographic findings in a case of thallium poisoning, beginning 10 days after symptom onset and ending 24 months later. Initially, the plantar nerves ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Dumitru D,Kalantri A

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exertional muscle pain, contractures, recurrent rhabdomyolysis, and pigmenturia are common in certain muscle glycolytic disorders. However, the frequency, distribution, and long-term significance of these findings are poorly understood. First we performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the extremities as a screen...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Fleckenstein JL,Peshock RM,Lewis SF,Haller RG

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reported a large study of 93 children presenting a severe form of progressive muscular dystrophy. The first clinical symptoms were noticed between 3 to 12 years. The atrophy affects, predominantly, the girdle and truncal muscles. The hypertrophy of the calves is almost consistent. The progression of the di...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ben Hamida M,Fardeau M,Attia N

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common misconception attributes sparing of the flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) in ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE) to its innervating branch arising "at or above the elbow." We examined the relationship of FCU branches to the medial epicondyle (ME) and humeroulnar aponeurotic arcade (HUA) in 30 cadaver elbows. In only...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Campbell WW,Pridgeon RM,Riaz G,Astruc J,Leahy M,Crostic EG

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial crystalline inclusions, frequently found in mitochondrial myopathies, were analyzed by crystallographic techniques and computer-aided image processing. It could be shown that these structures were real crystals. There are two distinct types of crystal, which can be distinguished by shape, size, and patte...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Farrants GW,Hovmöller S,Stadhouders AM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We sought to compare median nerve elasticity between leprosy patients (LPs) and healthy volunteers (HVs) using ultrasound elastography (UE). METHODS:Two radiologists independently measured the strain ratio of the median nerve/flexor digitorum superficialis muscle (MN/FDSM) of 18 LP and 18 HV using real-ti...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Nogueira-Barbosa MH,Lugão HB,Gregio-Júnior E,Crema MD,Kobayashi MTT,Frade MAC,Pavan TZ,Carneiro AAO

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Upper motor neuron disorders are believed to leave the peripheral nervous system (PNS) intact. In this study we examined whether there is evidence of PNS involvement in spinal cord injury (SCI). METHODS:Twelve subjects with chronic low cervical or thoracic SCI were included prospectively. Needle electromy...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Tankisi H,Pugdahl K,Rasmussen MM,Clemmensen D,Rawashdeh YF,Christensen P,Krogh K,Fuglsang-Frederiksen A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) is the smallest outcome change that has clinical significance. Its use has not been established in the study of myasthenia gravis (MG). METHODS:Patients from a published intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) vs. placebo study were studied. One anchor-based an...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Katzberg HD,Barnett C,Merkies IS,Bril V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we questioned whether local cooling of muscle or heating involving core and muscle temperatures are the main indicators for force variability. METHODS:Ten volunteers performed a 2-min maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) of the knee extensors under control (CON) conditions after passive heat...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Brazaitis M,Skurvydas A,Pukėnas K,Daniuseviciūtė L,Mickevicienė D,Solianik R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study we aimed to identify prognostic factors of ulnar neuropathy at the elbow (UNE) and developed a scoring system to establish the prognosis. METHODS:We collected baseline clinical, electrophysiologic, and ultrasonographic data from 2 cohorts. The outcomes for all patients were determined on fol...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Beekman R,Zijlstra W,Visser LH

更新日期：2017-05-01 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