(1) The same membrane specialization was noted in a previous study of amphibian myoneural junctions, and it was proposed then that the granular elements represent ACh receptor molecules.
(2) Common alcohol-related complications requiring treatment include: (1) clinicopathologic disorders, often associated with the gastroenterologic or cardiorespiratory systems, including alcoholic cirrhosis, (2) peripheral myoneural effects, (3) neuropsychiatric complications (delirium tremens, acute alcoholic hallucinosis, Korsakoff's psychosis, alcoholic dementia), and (4) psychosocial disability.
(3) The substitution of suxamethonium by vecuronium, or probably any other non-depolarizing myoneural blocking drug of intermediate or short duration of action, may help to avoid this complication.
(4) In patients eligible for intestinal anastomoses, rapidly eliminated myoneural blocker such as atracurium besylate or vecuronium, should be preferred.
(5) The pharyngeal retractor muscle of Helix lucorum is innervated by two symmetrical nerves which contain axons of two types forming myoneural junctions with the muscle cells.
(6) The arm extends to a nerve cord where it establishes a myoneural junction characterized by giant mitochondria and clusters of vesicles in the nerve fibers and by a 500 A neuromuscular gap.
(7) In other biopsies, no structural or ultrastructural abnormality of axis cylinders, myelin, or myoneural junction suggesting denervation were observed.
(8) The ultrastructure of the sub-sarcolemmal space, as well as the postsynaptic membranes of the myoneural junctions of the exposed animals, was normal.
(9) These data suggest that duodenal activity stimulated by motilin and caerulein participates in the activation of SO motility via intrinsic myoneural pathways.
(10) It thus seems that systemic carbon disulfide poisoning primarily alters the presynaptic structures of the myoneural junctions, while the postsynaptic side remains relatively intact, especially since the histochemical distribution of AChE in myoneural junctions was normal.
(11) In 39 patients optimal myoneural block for surgery was maintained for the duration of the infusion without adjustments or supplementary bolus doses.
(12) Signs of carbamate poisoning were indistinguishable from those of organophosphate poisoning and included signs of myoneural and CNS cholinergic receptor involvement, in addition to parasympathetic muscarinic dysfunction.
(13) After the initial myoneural injection treatment series of three to five sessions, it should be utilized only for severe pain exacerbation that has been unresponsive to conservative, noninvasive management.
(14) The selective accumulation of mercury in spinal and brainstem motoneurons is most probably due to a leakage of metal-protein complexes from capillaries in muscle into myoneural junctions, followed by uptake into nerve terminals and retrograde axonal transport.
(15) Myoneural block therapy is often a useful adjunct to physical therapy to improve the patient's overall range of motion and facilitate either treatment by the physical therapist or a home exercise program.
(16) The muscle was relatively immature, containing groups of cells enclosed in a common basement membrane (clusters) and exhibiting primitive myoneural junctions.
(17) The asymmetrical wave forms were assumed to be caused by the scatter of myoneural junctions and by the time delay of the excitation at the junctions.
(18) We believed that their presence is pathognomonic of myasthenia and results from a differential involvement of the two myoneural mechanisms that are peculiar to the extraocular muscles.
(19) The in vivo preparation appears to provide a superior representation of the physiology of the myoneural junction.
(20) These data suggest that the duodenum does not control cyclicity of sphincter motility but sphincter-duodenal intrinsic myoneural continuity is important in the increase in sphincter spike activity during phases II and III and after feeding.
Neuromuscular
Definition:
(a.) Nervomuscular.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(2) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
(3) We concluded that ketamine potentiates the Phase I and the Phase II neuromuscular blocks of succinylcholine.
(4) The actions of the polyvalent cationic dye Ruthenium Red and the enzyme neuraminidase were studied at the frog neuromuscular junction.
(5) The course was further complicated by administration of gentamicin, an antibiotic known to potentiate neuromuscular blocking drugs.
(6) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.
(7) Neuromuscular disorders in small animals include a diverse group of congenital and acquired diseases.
(8) Neuromuscular transmission and muscle sensitivity to acetylcholine (ACh) were studied in vitro in soleus and extensor digitorium longus (EDL) from 6 hr to 4 months after the injection of toxin.3.
(9) Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common neuromuscular disease with adult onset (incidence 1 in 8000).
(10) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
(11) At the adult neuromuscular junction, acetylcholine (ACh) receptors are highly localized at the subsynaptic membrane, whereas, embryonic myotubes before innervation have receptors distributed over the entire surface.
(12) That is why in the patients with disturbances it is necessary to carry out adequate conservative therapy directed at improvement of the metabolism of the neuromuscular structures both before the operation and during the postoperative period, e.g.
(13) In vivo, the ability of an AChR clustering stimulus to depress cluster formation elsewhere on the muscle cell may influence both the site at which the neuromuscular junction develops as well as which axons survive during synapse elimination.
(14) The anesthesiologist assessed the degree of neuromuscular blockade intraoperatively prior to pharmacologic reversal either by the standard method of visually counting the number of evoked thumb twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the ulnar nerve (i.e., thumb train-of-four count), or by an alternative method such as 1) visually counting the number of evoked orbicularis oculi muscle twitches elicited by supramaximal train-of-four stimulation of the facial nerve, or 2) observing the patient for clinical evidence of partial recovery (e.g., swallowing or attempts to breathe).
(15) However, some of the movement variables were significantly changed immediately after insertion, but an adaptation of the neuromuscular system to the interference was evident at the end of the experimental period.
(16) Clinical assessment does not accurately assess the 'remote' neuromuscular effects of cancer on the motor unit.
(17) Protamine sulphate in vitro antagonized anticoagulant properties but did not protect mice from toxic envenomation; because venom was also neurotoxic and showed a curare like effect at the neuromuscular junction.
(18) At the electron-microscopic level, 5-HT-immunoreactive nerve terminals, which contain small (50-60 nm) and large (approximately 100 nm) agranular vesicles as well as granular vesicles (approximately 100 nm), contact the muscle fibers or the sarcoplasmic processes without establishing specialized neuromuscular connections.
(19) In some of the rabbits, a rise in antibody Level occurred without appearance of weakness, while it is still likely that AChR antibody could be necessary for the induction of neuromuscular blockage.
(20) In concentrations that did not modify neuromuscular transmission, theophylline and 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT) but not isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX), antagonized the inhibitory action of 2-chloroadenosine at the neuromuscular junction.