Assessment OF aged mdx mice by electrical impedance myography and magnetic resonance imaging

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 598-604

  Wu, Jim S ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Greenman, Robert L ^b   Bennett, David ^a   Geisbush, Tom ^a   Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Duchenne muscular dystrophy; EIM; Impedance; mdx mice; MRI; Nerve conduction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOIMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY DEVICE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MYOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPH; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; FORELIMB; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GRIP STRENGTH; IMPEDANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HYDROXYPROLINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HYDROXYPROLINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MYOGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84942193829     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24573     Document Type: Article

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