Muscle quality, architecture, and activation in cachectic patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-284

  Matschke, Verena ^a,b   Murphy, Peter ^a   Lemmey, Andrew B ^a   Maddison, Peter J ^a,b   Thom, Jeanette M ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b North West Wales NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body composition physical function; Muscle specific force; Rheumatoid arthritis ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ULTRASOUND; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CACHEXIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 76649085800     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090584     Document Type: Article

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