Muscle involvement in rheumatoid arthritis: An ultrastructural study

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-156

  De Palma, Luigi ^a   Chillemi, Claudio ^a   Albanelli, Stefano ^a   Rapali, Stefano ^a   Bertoni Freddari, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Muscle ultrastructure; Myositis; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOMERE;

EID: 0033916851     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120050132886     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. 1. Halla JT, Koopman WJ, Fallahi S, OH SJ, Gay RE, Schrohenloher RE. Rheumatoid myositis: clinical and histologic features and possible pathogenesis. Arthritis Rheum. 1984;27:737-743.
2. 2. Magyar E, Talerman A, Mohacsy J, Wouters HW, de Bruijn WC. Muscle changes in rheumatoid arthritis. Virchows Arch. 1977;373:267-278.
3. 3. Finol HJ, Muller B, de Oca IM, Marquez A. Ultrastructure of skeletal muscle in rheumatoid myositis. J Rheumatol. 1988;15:552-555.
4. 4. Haslock DI, Wrigth V, Harriman DGF. Neuromuscular disorders in rheumatoid arthritis: a motorpoint muscle biopsy study. Quart J Med. 1970;39:335-358.
5. 5. Payne CM, Stern LZ, Curless RG, Hannapel LK. Ultrastructural fiber typing in normal and diseased human muscle. J Neurol Sci. 1975;25:99-108.
6. 6. Matsubara S, Mair WGP. Ultrastructural changes of skeletal muscles in polyarteritis nodosa and in arteritis associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 1980;50:169-174.
7. 7. Soden M, Boundy K, Burrow D, Blumbergs P, Ahern M. Inclusion body myositis in association with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol. 1994;21:344-346.
8. 8. Bertoni-Freddari C, Fattoretti P, Paoloni R, et al. Muscle mitochondria in aging: a morphometric study on human biopsies. Submitted.
9. 9. Fattoretti P, Bertoni-Freddari C, Caselli U, Paoloni R, Meier-Ruge W. Impaired succinic dehydrogenase activity of rat Purkinje cell mitochondria during aging. Mech Age Dev. 1998;101:175-182.
10. 10. Waclawik AJ, Sufit RL, Beinlich BR, Schutta HS. Acute myopathy with selective degeneration of myosin filaments following status asthmaticus treated with methylprednisolone and vecuronium. Neuromuscul Disord. 1992;2:19-26.
11. 11. De Girolami U, Smith TW. Pathology of skeletal muscle diseases. Am J Pathol. 1982;107:235-276.
12. 12. Bohan A, Peter JB. Polymyositis and dermatomyositis. N Engl J Med 1975;292:344-347.
13. 13. Dalakas MC. Polymyositis, dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis. N Engl J Med. 1991;325:1487-1498.
14. 14. Sayers ME, Chou SM, Calabrese LH. Inclusion body myositis: analysis of 32 cases. J Rheumatol. 1992;19:1385-1389.
15. 99mtechnetium pyrophosphate muscle scintigraphy and magnetic resonance imaging in targeted muscle biopsy. Rheumatol Int. 1998;17:207-213.
16. 16. Lexell J, Henriksson-Larsen K, Winblad B, Sjostrom M. Distribution of different fiber types in human skeletal muscles: effects of aging studied in whole muscle cross sections. Muscle & Nerve. 1983;6:588-595.
17. 17. Touno M, Senda M, Nakago K, Yokoyama Y, Inoue H. Muscle fiber changes of the vastus medialis in rheumatoid patients. Acta Med Okayama. 1996;50:157-164.