Sentence examples for motor unit number from inspiring English sources

Multipoint incremental motor unit number estimation as an outcome measure in ALS.

Motor unit number estimation in the rat tail using a modified multipoint stimulation technique.

A longitudinal study comparing thenar motor unit number estimates to other quantitative tests in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

With MUNIX being both much more patient friendly and much more rapid to assess than MUNE, the results support the use of MUNIX when motor unit number assessment is desired.

Sarcopenia is an inevitable process associated with a gradual reduction in muscle mass and strength, associated with a reduction in motor unit number and atrophy of muscle fibres, especially the fast type IIa fibres.

This advanced fellowship program will allow participants to develop advanced electrodiagnostic skills including single-fiber EMG, quantitative motor unit potential analysis, and motor unit number estimation.

In this early work, incremental stimulation was used to determine the average SMUP; however, this technique may result in alternate or summative activation of units of similar thresholds and as such may overestimate motor unit numbers.

In contrast, two completed clinical trials in 2003 and 2004 tested oral creatine supplementation and provided little notable improvements in lifespan, muscle strength, or motor unit numbers in patients with ALS.

This symmetry in motor unit numbers is largely maintained in young SOD1 G93Adl B6 mice, so that there were no significant differences between sides in either the EDL or soleus muscles at 22 and 24 weeks of age.

This loss of functional motor units is very similar to that observed in ALS patients, in whom a 20 50% drop in motor unit numbers within a 4- to 6-month period has been reported (Gooch and Shefner, 2004; Wang et al., 2002).

We are particularly concerned with two physiological quantities: the motor unit fiber number, which we expect to be proportional to the motor unit territory area; and the motor unit fiber density, which we expect to be constant for all motor units.