Ischemic resistance of cutaneous afferents and motor axons in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1692-1700

  Mogyoros, Ilona ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a   Burke, David ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Excitability; Ischemia; Paresthesias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONS; CONSTRICTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARESTHESIA; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN;

EID: 0031789752     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199812)21:12<1692::AID-MUS11>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Baker M, Bostock H, Grafe P, Martius P: Function and distribution of three three of rectifying channel in rat spinal root myelinated axons. J Physiol (Lond) 1987;383:45-67.
2. Bostock H, Baker M, Grafe P, Reid G: Changes in excitability and accommodation of human motor axons following brief periods of ischaemia. J Physiol (Lond) 1991;441:513-535.
3. Bostock H, Baker M, Reid G: Changes in excitability of human motor axons underlying post-ischaemic fasciculations: evidence for two stable states. J Physiol (Lond) 1991;441: 537-557.
4. Bostock H, Burke D, Hales JP: Differences in behaviour of sensory and motor axons following release of ischaemia. Brain 1994;117:225-234.
5. Bostock H, Bergmans J: Post-tetanic excitability changes and ectopic discharges in a human motor axons. Brain 1994;117: 913-928.
6. Bostock H, Sharief MK, Reid G, Murray NMF: Axonal ion channel dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain 1995;118:217-225.
7. Bradley WG, Good P, Rasool CG, Adelman LS: Morphometric and biochemical studies of peripheral nerves in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ann Neurol 1983;14:267-277.
8. Burke D, Mogyoros I, Kiernan MC, Bostock H: Excitability of cutaneous sensory axons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in Kimura J, Kaji R (eds): Physiology of ALS and Related Disorders-Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1997, pp 145-154.
9. Dyck PJ, Stevens JC, Mulder DW, Espinosa RE: Frequency of nerve fiber degeneration of peripheral motor and sensory neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: morphometry of deep and superficial peroneal nerves. Neurology 1975;25: 781-785.
10. El Escorial World Federation of Neurology criteria for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 1994;124(suppl):96-107.
11. Eng DL, Gordon-TR, Kocsis JD, Waxman SG: Current-clamp analysis of a time-dependent rectification in rat optic nerve. J Physiol (Lond) 1990;421:185-202.
12. Felice KJ: A longitudinal study comparing thenar motor unit number estimates to other quantitative tests in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Muscle Nerve 1997;20:179-185.
13. Grafe P, Bostock H, Schneider U: The effect of hyperglycemic hypoxia on rectification in rat dorsal root axons. J Physiol (Lond) 1994;480:297-307.
14. Gregory R, Mills K, Donaghy M: Progressive sensory nerve dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclersosis: a prospective clinical and neurophysiological study. J Neurol 1993;240: 309-314.
15. Heads T, Pollock M, Robertson A, Sutherland WHF, Allpress S: Sensory nerve pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathol 1991;82:316-320.
16. Horn S, QuasthoffS, Grafe P, Bostock H, Renner R, Schrank B: Abnormal axonal inward rectification in diabetic neuropathy. Muscle Nerve 1996;19:1268-1275.
17. Kiernan MC, Mogyoros I, Burke D: Differences in the recovery of excitability in sensory and motor axons of human median nerve. Brain 1996;119:1099-1105.
18. Kodama M, Kaji R, Kojima Y, Hirota N, Kohara N, Shibasaki H, Bostock H, Kimura J: Threshold electrotonus in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: further experience in Japanese subjects. Electroencephalagr Clin Neurophysiol 1995;97:S172.
19. McComas AJ: Motor unit estimation: anxieties and achievements. Muscle Nerve 1995;18:369-379.
20. Mogyoros I, Kiernan MC, Burke D, Bostock H: Excitability changes in human sensory and motor axons during hyperventilation and ischaemia. Brain 1997;120:317-325.
21. Mogyoros I, Kiernan MC, Burke D, Bostock H: Strength-duration properties of sensory and motor axons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain 1998;121:851-859.
22. Mogyoros I, Kiernan MC, Burke D: Strength-duration properties of human peripheral nerve. Drain 1996;119:439-447.
23. Pape HC: Queer current and pacemaker: the hyperpolarization-activated cation current in neurons. Annu Rev Physiol 1996;58:299-327.
24. Poole EW: Ischaemic and post-ischaemic paraesthesiae. Normal responses in the upper limb with special reference to the effect of age. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1956;19:148-154.
25. Poole EW: Ischaemic and post-ischaemic paraesthesiae in motor neurone disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1957;20: 225-227.