abstract background: hypotension and muscular cramp are the common complications of hemodialysis. effective control of hemodialysis complications increases the survival time and the quality of life of patients on hemodialysis. considering that failure to follow a therapeutic plan is one of the most prevalent causes of hemodialysis complications, the present research was conducted to study the e...

INTRODUCTION Focal dystonia in musicians, also known as musician's cramp, is a task-specific movement disorder which presents itself as a painless muscular incoordina-ABSTRACT Background: Musician's dystonia is a task-spe

symptom spasmodic and tonic cramp in muscles, occurring suddenly and irregularly on attempting voluntary movement. In January, 1883, MM. Ballet and Marie published a case of this disease (.Archives de Ndurologie), naming it "muscular spasm at the commencement of voluntary movements." In March, 1883, Westphal brought two cases of the disease before the Society of Medicine of Berlin, and quoted s...

BACKGROUND The present study was aimed at investigating the writing parameters of writer's cramp patients and control subjects during handwriting of a test sentence in the absence of visual control. METHODS Eight right-handed patients with writer's cramp and eight healthy volunteers as age-matched control subjects participated in the study. The experimental task consisted in writing a test se...

CONTEXT Electrically induced muscle cramps (EIMC) do not last long enough to study many cramp treatments. Increasing stimulation frequency lengthens cramp duration; it is unknown which frequency elicits the longest EIMC. OBJECTIVE To determine which stimulation frequency elicits the longest EIMC and whether cramp duration and stimulation frequency are correlated. DESIGN Randomized, crossove...

Mammalian antimicrobial proteins, such as defensins and cathelicidin, have stimulating effects on host leukocytes. Cathelin-related antimicrobial peptide (CRAMP), the orthologue of human cathelicidin/LL-37, is the sole identified murine cathelicidin. CRAMP has been shown to have both antimicrobial and angiogenic activities. However, whether CRAMP, like human cathelicidin/LL-37, also exhibits a ...

Muscle cramp was induced in one head of the gastrocnemius muscle (GA) in eight of thirteen subjects using maximum voluntary contraction when the muscle was in the shortened position. Cramp in GA was painful, involuntary, and localized. Induction of cramp was indicated by the presence of electromyographic (EMG) activity in one head of GA while the other head remained silent. In all cramping subj...

Neutrophils kill invading pathogens by AMPs, including cathelicidins, ROS, and NETs. The human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus exhibits enhanced resistance to neutrophil AMPs, including the murine cathelicidin CRAMP, in part, as a result of alanylation of teichoic acids by the dlt operon. In this study, we took advantage of the hypersusceptible phenotype of S. aureus DeltadltA against cationic A...