Muscle cramp in Machado-Joseph disease - Altered motor axonal excitability properties and mexiletine treatment

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 965-973

  Kanai, Kazuaki ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Arai, Kimihito ^a   Sung, Jia Ying ^a   Ogawara, Kazue ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Machado Joseph disease; Muscle cramps; Na+ conductance; Strength duration time constant

Indexed keywords

MEXILETINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NAUSEA; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; AXONS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MEXILETINE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 0037379363     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg073     Document Type: Article

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