The next scheduled update for this topic will be December 2003. Introduction 4 Scope and Key Questions 5 Methods 8 Literature Search 8 Study Selection 8 Data Abstraction 9 Quality Assessment 10 Data Synthesis 11 Results 11 Summary 25 References 26 Tables Table 1. Overview of included systematic reviews on skeletal muscle relaxants 38 Table 2. Overview of head-to-head trials of skeletal muscle r...

Introduction: Critically ill patients typically experience profound acute skeletal muscle loss. The associations between exercise interventions and protein intake to preserve are unknown.

Myosin light chain kinase purified from chicken white skeletal muscle (Mr = 150,000) was significantly larger than both rabbit skeletal (Mr = 87,000) and chicken gizzard smooth (Mr = 130,000) muscle myosin light chain kinases, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Km and Vmax values with rabbit or chicken skeletal, bovine cardiac, and chicken gizzard smooth...