Radiation plexopathy produces numbness, weakness, and reflex changes.1 Excess motor unit activity (EMUA) after irradiation manifests as myokymia and neuromyotonia in affected muscles.2,3 A 65-year-old woman presented with a pulling sensation in the left axilla and intermittent depression of the left arm of 3 to 4 months duration. Ten months earlier she had completed chemotherapy and radiation t...

This report describes the influence of neurite fasciculation on two aspects of nerve growth from chick spinal ganglia in vitro : the inhibition of outgrowth by high concentrations of nerve growth factor (NGF) and the preferential growth of neurites toward a capillary tube containing NGF. These studies involved a comparison of cultures of single cells, cell aggregates, and intact ganglia and the...

This report describes the influence of neurite fasciculation on two aspects of nerve growth from chick spinal ganglia in vitro : the inhibition of outgrowth by high concentrations of nerve growth factor (NGF) and the preferential growth of neurites toward a capillary tube containing NGF. These studies involved a comparison of cultures of single cells, cell aggregates, and intact ganglia and the...

A randomized control trial was done between January and December of 2018, in the Department Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Palliative & Intensive Care Medicine Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, to evaluate preventive effect pregabalin on succinylcholine induced adverse effects, i.e., fasciculation, myalgia hyperkaliemia spine surgery. Sixty patients elective surgery under general anaesth...

background: scorpion sting envenomation generally causes treatable local and systemic effects; however, in rare cases, the victims might experience sequels in end organs such as central nervous system. in the present paper, a case of relatively self-limiting demyelinating polyneuropathy following a butidae sting is presented and the possible mechanisms are discussed.  case presentation: a 19-ye...

For decades, it has been suggested that complex neural wiring might be specified by extensive diversity in receptor isoforms. Dscam is a cell surface protein with 38,016 potential alternatively spliced isoforms in the fly nervous system. Remarkable binding studies now show that Dscam isoform diversity indeed results in an unprecedented level of recognition diversity, showing isoform-specific ho...