Introduction: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment mononeuropathy and can affect patients' daily living activities. In this study, it was aimed to find out whether there a relationship between fatigue, neuropathic pain neurophysiological features in CTS.
 Material Method: Patients with clinical compatible CTS were included retrospective study. Median nerve compound mu...

1 CMAP-Ecole Polytechnique, France and Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, New York, [email protected] 2 Paris VII University and INRIA, Université Paris VII, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires Case courier 7012 2, Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris, France, [email protected] 3 Université Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales, GREMAQ, 21, allée de Brienne, 31000 Toulo...

Branched antimicrobial peptides are promising as a new class of antibiotics displaying high activity and low toxicity and appear to work through a unique mechanism of action. We explore the structural dynamics of a covalently branched 18 amino acid peptide (referred to as B2088) in aqueous and membrane mimicking environments through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Towards this, we carry ou...

[1] The analysis of the GPCP and CMAP datasets during the past 30 years (1979–2008) indicates that there are consistent increasing trends in both the global monsoon area (GMA) and the global monsoon total precipitation (GMP). This positive monsoon rainfall trend differs from previous studies that assumed a fixed global monsoon domain. Due to the increasing trends in both the GMA and GMP, a glob...

OBJECTIVE To investigate potential drugs for diabetic nephropathy (DN) using whole-genome expression profiles and the Connectivity Map (CMAP). METHODOLOGY Eighteen Chinese Han DN patients and six normal controls were included in this study. Whole-genome expression profiles of microdissected glomeruli were measured using the Affymetrix human U133 plus 2.0 chip. Differentially expressed genes (...

To identify determinants of peripheral involvement in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD) the influence of CAG repeat length, age of onset, disease duration and age on the results of nerve conduction studies was analysed in 58 patients with SCA3/MJD. Patients with SCA3/MJD showed marked reduction of compound muscle action potential (CMAP) and sensory nerve action pot...

OBJECTIVES To determine if transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the cervical roots can be used to diagnose proximal conduction block (CB) in multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) and whether it can reliably distinguish MMN from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS Compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) over the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) were evoked by supramaximal stimulation of...

Objective: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral neuropathy affecting upper limbs. Various treatment methods exist for this disease, but only a few reports have compared effects of various treatments using objective indicators. This study analyzed changes in electrophysiological parameters after carpal release.Methods: In patients planning to undergo surgical CTS, studies, ...

The effect of chest wall configuration on the diaphragm electromyogram (EMGdi) was evaluated in five healthy subjects with an esophageal electrode for both interference pattern EMGdi (voluntary contractions) and electrically evoked diaphragm compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs). Diaphragm CMAPs (both unilateral and bilateral) were evaluated for the baseline-to-peak amplitude (Ampl), the ti...