OBJECTIVE To establish the inter-rater reliability of decomposition-based quantitative electromyography (DQEMG) derived motor unit number estimates (MUNEs) and quantitative motor unit (MU) analysis. METHODS Using DQEMG, two examiners independently obtained a sample of needle and surface-detected motor unit potentials (MUPs) from the tibialis anterior muscle from 10 subjects. Coupled with a ma...

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Masayo Iwasa ([email protected]) Wataru Aoi ([email protected]) Keitaro Mune ([email protected]) Haruka Yamauchi ([email protected]) Kaori Furuta ([email protected]) Shota Sasaki ([email protected]) Kazuya Takeda ([email protected]) Kiyomi Harada ([email protected]) Sayori Wada ([email protected]) Yasushi Nakamura ([email protected]) Kenji Sato ([email protected]) A...

Electrical stimulation (ES) of injured peripheral nerves accelerates axonal regeneration in laboratory animals. However, clinical applicability of this intervention has never been investigated in human subjects. The aim of this pilot study was to determine the effect of ES on axonal regeneration after surgery in patients with median nerve compression in the carpal tunnel causing marked motor ax...

the present study investigated the effects of prebiotic (α-mune), a mixture of mannan oligosaccharide, β-1,3 and β-1,6 glucan, on the growth performance, haematology and innate immunity of beluga sturgeon ( huso huso ) juvenile. fish (46±3 g) were allocated into 12 tanks (15 fish per tank) and triplicate groups were fed a control diet or diets containing 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 g kg -1 prebiotic for 4...

cent staining did not show deposition of immunoglobulins or complement components, except IgM in 2 of 15 and C3 in 1 of 15 patients. This finding indicates that the late phase does not depend on the deposition of imReceived for publication 18 August 1975 and in revised form 22 March 1976. mune complexes. The results of the study suggest that IgE-allergen interaction on the surfaces of mast cell...