(n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stretch reflexes of posterior tibial (PT) and triceps surae (TS) muscles were studied electrophysiologically in 27 children with unoperated unilateral congenital equinovarus deformity, in an attempt to evaluate changes in tone of the leg muscles as a possible pathogenetic factor.
(2) Sixteen monkeys underwent chronic conditioning of the triceps surae H-reflex.
(3) Torque generated about the ankle joints during maximum isometric contraction of the plantar flexor muscles was measured on a subject 4 months after unilateral excision of the entire triceps surae.
(4) The aim of this study was to investigate the reflex effects on triceps surae and plantaris fusimotor neurones elicited by tonic stretch of the contralateral posterior biceps and semitendinosus (p.b.s.t.)
(5) Pyridostigmine significantly decreased the contracture of innervated triceps surae muscle in a frequency dependent manner.
(6) We have studied in 32 healthy subjects the EMG activity of biceps and triceps brachii, wrist flexors and wrist extensors, triceps surae and tibialis anterior, sterno-cleido-mastoideus (SCM) and splenius, during their passive shortening.
(7) The EMG pattern in standing subjects and patients consisted of short- and middle-latency responses (SL and ML) in the stretched triceps surae muscles and long-latency responses (LL) in the shortened tibialis anterior muscles.
(8) Individual triceps surae motor units were recorded by selective EMG electrodes during tonic stretch reflexes in the decerebrate preparations.
(9) Changes in the discharge rate of fusimotor neurones to hamstring muscles during long-lasting, fatiguing, contractions of the triceps surae muscles were studied in decerebrate cats.
(10) The results demonstrate that a conditioning tibial nerve H-reflex produced marked facilitation onto the contralateral triceps surae motoneurons, predominantly at longer-latency intervals.
(11) Moreover, when the triceps surae were stretched passively to produce a pattern and amount of tension similar to that seen during static hindlimb contraction, a significant reflex cardiovascular response occurred.
(12) Nine monkeys prepared with chronic fine-wire triceps surae (gastrocnemius and soleus) electromyographic (EMG) electrodes were taught by computer to maintain a given level of background EMG activity.
(13) However, after its injection into the triceps surae muscle both single- and two-chain toxin were found in the ipsilateral ventral horn of the spinal cord.
(14) The individual EPSPs evoked by the action of single Ia fibers from cat triceps surae (MG, LG, SOL) were recorded in homonymous and heteronymous motoneurons innervating these same three muscles.
(15) Sensory neurones arising from the triceps surae and plantaris muscles were subject to ;disuse' conditions for about 3 weeks by section of the ventral roots combined with severance of the Achilles tendon.
(16) We studied the intensity of stimulus currents eliciting just-visible muscle contractions in the lower leg (m. triceps surae) to see how this influenced the latency and success rate of sciatic nerve block.
(17) Monosynaptic excitatory post-synaptic potentials (e.p.s.p.s) were recorded from triceps surae motoneurones in the cat following section or chronic conduction block of the medial gastrocnemius (m.g.)
(18) Clonus of the triceps surae resolved in 48% of tizanidine and 40% of diazepam patients.
(19) Functional testing of at least one muscle group (m. triceps surae) appeared to be more reliable than manual testing according to MRC criteria.
(20) Each experimental condition consisted of a 4-minute period of massage of the ipsilateral and contralateral triceps surae and hamstring muscle groups (ITS, CTS, IHS, and CHS, respectively).
Sural
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand they were significantly greater (p less than 0.0001) in the sural nerve in pma mice than in control mice.
(2) Direct immunofluorescence (DIF) has been carried out in 66 sural nerve biopsies using antibodies against human IgG, IgA, IgM, C3, C4, albumin, fibrinogen, and kappa- and lambda-chains.
(3) All three groups showed a loss of large and small myelinated nerve fibres in sural nerve biopsy specimens which was greater in Groups 1 and 2.
(4) We immunohistochemically examined the expression of Schwann cell-related markers, nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor, S-100 alpha- and beta-proteins, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and galactocerebroside (gal C) in 5 malignant schwannomas, 21 benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and 4 apparently normal sural nerves.
(5) Before replacement therapy, a large reduction of sural nerve action potential amplitude and of Hoffmann's reflex was observed.
(6) The techniques used did not demonstrate sympathetic axons in the cutaneous branch and did not reveal the few motor axons contained in the sural nerve.
(7) A subpopulation of identified postsynaptic dorsal column neurons also showed a significant increase in the percentage that responded to sural nerve stimulation after DLF lesions.
(8) Muscle biopsies revealed neurogenic atrophy and sural nerve biopsies were histologically unremarkable.
(9) We have studied the physiology of primary sensory neurons innervating rat hindlimb muscle in the following: 1) normal control animals; 2) animals in which the gastrocnemius nerve (Gn) had regenerated to its original muscle target; and 3) animals in which the cutaneous sural nerve (Sn) had regenerated to a foreign target, muscle.
(10) In 167 consecutive patients with various types of neuropathy, the amplitude of the sensory potential and the maximum conduction velocity along the sural nerve were compared with conduction in other sensory nerves, and were related to structural changes revealed by nerve biopsy.
(11) Twelve adult rhesus monkeys underwent bilateral resection of a portion of the peroneal nerve followed by placement of autogenous sural nerve interposition fascicular grafts.
(12) In recent years, the sural nerve biopsy has become a commonly performed procedure in the diagnostic work-up of patients with peripheral neuropathy.
(13) The peroneal and sural nerves were stimulated in an exposed hindlimb preparation; the ipsilateral vagus was stimulated at the cervical level.
(14) He was found, at biopsy, to have a fascicular neuroma of his right sural nerve, unassociated with his underlying neuropathy, apparently due to blunt trauma, as electroneurographic needling of this nerve could safely be ruled out by the patient and his physicians.
(15) The electron microscopic study of the skin was unremarkable whereas sural nerve biopsies yielded an essential lack of unmyelinated fibers.
(16) The cause of these sequellae is the immobilization of the foot in an equinus position, which relaxes the sural triceps and as a result of the lack of mechanical traction factor, leads to local circulatory disturbances followed by a modification in the structure of the bone and of the muscle.
(17) A transfibular lateral approach between the sural nerve and the lateral branch of the superficial peroneal nerve is utilized.
(18) It was the objective of our study to investigate correlations between different recording electrodes and neurophysiological norm values as nerve conduction velocity and latency prolongation after paired stimulation of the sural nerve.
(19) The purpose of this study was to compare the amplitude of the flexion reflex of the biceps femoris muscle (BF) with the intensity of the painful sensation elicited by a nociceptive stimulation resulting from application of constant-current either on the sural nerve or on the skin in its distal receptive field.
(20) The sural nerve is widely used as a graft in autologous nerve transplantation.