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Rehabilitation interventions for foot drop in neuromuscular disease [PDF]
"Foot drop" or "Floppy foot drop" is the term commonly used to describe weakness or contracture of the muscles around the ankle joint.
Disler, Peter B. +3 more
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DIAGNOSIS IN NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
The diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases can be challenging and successful in the majority of patients, due to advancements in electrophysiology, muscle and nerve biopsy immunohistochemistry, and cytogenetics. This article reviews diverse topics, highlighting these recent achievements, with an emphasis on how they affect the clinical and laboratory ...
David S. Younger, Gordon Gilbert
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Early stages of building a rare disease registry, methods and 2010 data from the Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (BNMDR) [PDF]
The Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry, commissioned in 2008, aims to collect data to improve knowledge on neuromuscular diseases and enhance quality health services for neuromuscular disease patients.
BNMDR Scientific Committee, the +7 more
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The complement system plays a key role in myasthenia gravis (MG). Anti-complement drugs are emerging as effective therapies to treat anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive MG patients, though their usage is still limited by the high costs ...
Nicola Iacomino +11 more
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Improving translational studies: lessons from rare neuromuscular diseases [PDF]
Animal models play a key role in the development of novel treatments for human disease. This is particularly true for rare diseases – defined as disorders that affect less than 1 in 2000 people in the human population – for which, very often, there are ...
Wells, D J
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BDNF-dependent modulation of axonal transport is selectively impaired in ALS
Axonal transport ensures long-range delivery of essential cargoes between proximal and distal compartments, and is needed for neuronal development, function, and survival.
Andrew P. Tosolini +5 more
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A functional motor unit in the culture dish : co-culture of spinal cord explants and muscle cells [PDF]
Human primary muscle cells cultured aneurally in monolayer rarely contract spontaneously because, in the absence of a nerve component, cell differentiation is limited and motor neuron stimulation is missing(1). These limitations hamper the in vitro study
Arnold, Anne-Sophie +2 more
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Neuromuscular Diseases and Bone
Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are inherited or acquired conditions affecting skeletal muscles, motor nerves, or neuromuscular junctions. Most of them are characterized by a progressive damage of muscle fibers with reduced muscle strength, disability, and poor health-related quality of life of affected patients.
Iolascon G +4 more
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Background We have aimed to assess whether muscle thickness ultrasound (US) shows differences between patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), chronic axonal polyneuropathy (CAP), and other neuromuscular (NM) diseases ...
Sara A. Alnajjar +5 more
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Late-onset thymidine kinase 2 deficiency: a review of 18 cases [PDF]
BACKGROUND: TK2 gene encodes for mitochondrial thymidine kinase, which phosphorylates the pyrimidine nucleosides thymidine and deoxycytidine. Recessive mutations in the TK2 gene are responsible for the 'myopathic form' of the mitochondrial depletion ...
Caballero Eraso, Candelaria +9 more
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