introduction: diabetic polyneuropathy is one of the most common and important complications of diabetes mellitus for its clinical ranking. several clinical categorising scoring systems have been designated. among them only toronto clinical scoring system (tcss) had been partially evaluated on the basis of pathologic findings in sural nerve biopsy. only the mild cases had been studied since the ...

The economic, social and personal burden of common neurological disorders has been the subject of intense study all over the world. Nerve conduction velocity being affected by factors like age, gender and temperature is a well known fact. The effect of handedness on nerve conduction is not known much and needs further evaluation. In the present study 50 medical students divided into 2 groups of...

To investigate the effect of tension on the contractive force of muscle and nerve conduction velocity of the repaired nerve, this study was designed. Fifty-four Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 3 groups. The left gastrocnemius muscles of the rats were dissected with the neurovascular pedicles intact; the tibial nerves were cut and immediately repaired by epineurial suture. Th...

The influence of one-sided limb dominance on the muscles, bones and motor conduction velocity of median nerve has been investigated and reported. We have undertaken a more detailed study of the conduction velocity of the efferent fibres of median and ulnar nerves of both sides in 25 right-handed and an equal number of left-handed subjects of both sexes in the age group of 18-30 years. A signifi...

Previously we have demonstrated that diabetes causes impairment in vascular function of epineurial vessels, which precedes the slowing of motor nerve conduction velocity. Treatment of diabetic rats with aldose reductase inhibitors, aminoguanidine or myo-inositol supplementation have been shown to improve motor nerve conduction velocity and/or decreased endoneurial blood flow. However, the effec...

PETAJAN, JACK H. Changes in rat w&-al cuudal nem conduction &city during cold exposm. Am. J. Physiol. 214(l): 130-132. 1968.-Conduction velocity of the ventral caudal nerve was determined in vivo in two groups of rats previously adapted to 2 and 5 C, respectively, Study of the relation between conduction velocity and tail temperature discloses a decrease in velocity most noticeable at lvarmer t...

BACKGROUND There is supportive evidence that multiple sclerosis (MS) could potentially affect the peripheral nervous system. We assessed peripheral sensory and motor nerve involvement in patients with MS by a nerve conduction velocity test. METHODS We studied 75 patients who had a relapsing-remitting or secondary progressive pattern. We measured amplitude, latency, conduction velocity, Hoffma...

INTRODUCTION Presently, there are few studies addressing the subject of peripheral neuropathy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Consequently, there is a dearth of evidence and awareness of subclinical neuropathy in stable COPD patients with no significant hypoxaemia, particularly in the age group of 40-60 years. The present study was designed to evaluate the subclin...

Conduction in the lateral popliteal nerve of the baboon was studied during the course of Wallerian degeneration. Six nerves were examined. In each case the muscle response to nerve stimulation and the ascending nerve action potential were recorded daily until the nerve became inexcitable. The muscle response to nerve stimulation disappeared after four to five days, but ascending nerve action po...