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MUSCLE* NERVE “asia CONTENTS Official Journal of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine JANUARY 2008 EDITORIAL A New Hand at the Helm Lawrence H. Phillips ||, MD INVITED REVIEW The Immunocompetence of Schwann Cellst Gerd Meyer Zu Horste, MD, Wei Hu, MD, Hans-Peter Hartu Helmar C. Lehmann. MID Ti 1 Bernd Kiesejer MD MAIN ARTICLES Critical Iliness Myopathy: Further Evidence from Muscle-Fiber Excitability Studies of an Acquired Channelopathy DavidC . Allen, MB, BS, Ramamurthy Arunachalam, MD, and Kerry R. Mills, PhD Reduced Muscle-Fiber Conduction But Normal Slowing after Cold Exposure in Paramyotonia Congenita Paul J. Blijham, MD, Gea Drost, MD, PhD, Dick F. Stegeman, PhD, and MAAa chie> l . J. 7,Z wara ts, MAAD , PKhfD) Voluntary Activation during Knee Extensions in Severely Deconditioned Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Benefit of Endurance Training Isabelle Vivodtzev, PhD, Patrice Flore, PhD, Patrick Lévy, MD, PhD and Bernard Wuyam, MD, PhD Phrenic Nerve Conduction Studies: Technical Aspects and Normative Data Anita Resman-Gaspérsc, MD, and Simon Podnar, MD, DS Effects of Nandrolone on Denervation Atrophy Depend upon Time after Nerve Transection Jingbo Zhao, MD, Yuangfei Zhang, MS, Weidong Zhao, MD, Yong Wu, MD Jiangping Pan, BS, William A. Bauman, MD, and Christopher Cardozo, MD Diagnostic Validity of Epidermal Nerve Fiber Densities in Painful Sensory Neuropathies Eva Viékova-Morav Wada MD Jose Bed a’rik MD Laaisiav Uuse \/ j AAD CORD a Klaus \V Toyka, VIL) FRCP, nd Ciauaia sommer, MU Disodium Cromoglycate Protects Dystrophin-Deficient Muscle Fibers from Leakiness Maria Julia Marques, PhD, Rafael Ventura Machado, MS, Elaine Minatel, PhD and Humber" to SSiatna to s Neto, DAPhND Effect of Innervation-Zone Distribution on Estimates of Average Muscle-Fiber Conduction Velocity Mogens Nielsen, MSc, Thomas Graven-Nielsen, DMSc, PhD, and Dario Farina, PhD Myogenesis in Human Denervated Muscle Biopsies Kathrin Doppler, MD, Michel Mittelbronn, MD, and Antie Bornemann, MD FoxO3a Preferentially Induces p27“'?' Expression While impairing Muscle Precursor Cell-Cycle Progression Christo yer R. Rathbone PhD. Frank W. Booth. PhD. and Simon J. Lees. PhD Reliability of a Novel Neurostimulation Method to Study Involuntary Muscle Phenomena Marco Alessandro Minetto, MD, Alberto Botter Roberto Merletti, PhD, and Domeni De Grandis, h SHORT REPORTS Distal Lesion of the Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve lark Kus} MD, Colin Klein, MD, Yitzhak Kimiagar, MD, LeaP t Fluorophore-Labeled Myosin-Specific Antibodies Simplify Muscle-Fiber Phenotyping v¥ iV 4, if ] Jeffrey 7 \ Namberlain Phi Neurophysiological Study in a Spanish Family with Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay An Italian Family with inclusion-Body Myopathy and Frontotemporal Dementia due to Mutation in the VCP Gene CASES OF THE Late-Onset Monomelic Amyotrophy in a Caucasian Woman MONTH nesh | tel M rie Kneoper. MD. andH | as: ideas Progressive Muscle Atrophy with Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis and Calcium Channel Mutation Reversible Nitrous Oxide—Induced Myeloneuropathy with Pernicious Anemia: Case Report and Literature Review Coincident Membranous Glomerulonephritis and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy: Questioning the Autoimmunity Hypothesis REGULAR Calendar of Events FEATURES AANEM News and Comments FEBRUARY 2008 INVITED REVIEWS Lifetime Course of Myasthenia Gravis Human Mitochondrial Transfer RNAs: Role of Pathogenic Mutation in Disease* MAIN ARTICLES Surrogate Therapeutic Outcome Measures in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis Physiology of the Motor Cortex in Polio Survivors Uinar Sensory Nerve Impairment at the Wrist in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome i> f | Jory Effects of CRF2R Agonist on Tumor Growth and Cachexia in Mice Implanted with Lewis Lung Carcinoma Cells Possible Role for Nitric Oxide cin er in' Critical ness 5M,yo pathy Pandolfi PhD Nitric Oxide Reverses Prednisolone-induced Inactivation of Muscle Satellite Cells Jenna L. Betters, PhD, Jodi H.D. Long, PhD, Kathleen S. Howe, PhD, Randy W. Braith, PhD, Quinlyn A. Soltow, MS, Vitor A. Lira, MS, and David S. Criswell, PhD Mechanisms calannelR eversal of Motor Unit Activation Order in Electrically Evoked Contractions After Spinal Cord Injury Turan A. Kaya Jason P. Grimes, MS, and Warren M. Grill, PhD wannenialiilianeo f Adult Myoblasts or Adipose Tissue Precursor Cells by High- Suey yas neagey Failed to Improve Reinnervated Skeletal rene loussanne-Domergue, MD, Bertrand Coulet, MD, PhD, f\ [ Chammas, MD. PhD e PhD Slower Cuntuation Velocity a« nd Motor Unit Discharge Frequency Are Associated with Muscle Fatigue During Isometric eueretee in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus S. Almeida AAC1 S M.¢ RiddellW , DPhh D nnd f a wellij , PhD Effects of High-I ntensity Focused Ultrasound on es Conduction Jes al F Icy PhD Jame W l (tle MD PhD arn ) am Vaez2y, PhD SHORT REPORTS Both Type 1 and Type 2a Muscle Fibers Can Respond to Enzyme Therapy in Pompe Disease V PhD. i Uv Severe Guillain-Barré Syndrome Associated with Chromosome 17p11.2-12 Duplication Chri tooh Mtin } Jorg R. Weber, MD, and Thomas Meyer, MD Quantification of Normal Range of Inflammatory Changes in Morphologically Normal Pediatric Muscle Hemlata Varsani, BSc, Katy R. Newton, PhD, Charl A. MD, Brian Hardir nice L. Holton, MD, PhD, and Luc R. Weddert Nodular-Type Muscle p Gaveetioate Developing After a Dog Bite Y Koide MD H. Ishiha MD wd F. k WNdGa UID CASES OF THE Acute Sensory Ataxic Neuropathy with Antibodies to GD1b and GQ1b MONTH pte sine eeea nd ws reaapry mteoine Interval hte in a Patient with Pectahined Nerve eenarenettitiing and Potassium Channel Antibodies " ’ asry ff m- « r bert U. Kieine, ML DICK ft tegeman. PI REGULAR Calendar of Events FEATURES AANEM News and Comments MARCH 2008 INVITED REVIEW Tumor Necrosis Factor-a Antagonists and Neuropathy loera-f er AANEM MONOGRAPH Differential Diagnosis of Myotonic Disorders' Timothy M. Miller MD. Phi MAIN ARTICLES Electrophysiological Signs and the Prevalence of Adverse Effects of Acetyicholinesterase Inhibitors in enmeare with meyers Gravis Anna Rosteat Punga, MD. PhD. Mik sawada, ML INA k Stalberg, MD, PhD Myostatin Blockade pees Function But Not ‘antogetiniees in a Murine Model of Limb-Girdle prereny! woes 2c AAT y a Ar a, na boaudar L é | }y} no Té irs. Anurana LD. Reni F413C and A531V But Not R894X ele Genet Mutations Cause Defective Endoplasmic Reticulum Export of the Muscle-Specific Chloride Channel CLC-1 Papponen, MSc, Marja Nissinen, PhD, Tuula Kaisto, PhD, Vilho V. Myllyla, PhD, MD Myllyla, PhD, and KalervoM sikk6, PhD Paradoxical Depolarization of BA? Treated Muscle Exposed to Low Extracellular K*: Insights Into Resting Potential Abnormalities in Hypokalemic arte pe Arie truvk. MD. PhD. and Stephen C. Cannon, MD, PhD Danon Disease Due to a Novel Splice Mutation in the LAMP2 Gene Amelie ea hristian Therrien. PhD. Geor ge Karpat MD Rest-induced Suppression of Anterior Horn Cell Excitability as Measured by F Waves: beeen carey Between ee Inactivated and Control Muscles ? / in Kimura, MD. Toshiyuki Yanagisawa, MD. PhD A 1 ) Ff HD Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Pilot Trial of Ramipril in McArdie’s Disease Kemp N D Changes iin rea Afferent Inhibition sShaten Phasic renner in Focal Dystonia wan rir wa n, MD, Barbara Bliem, MS Mikhail | arev, PhD, MD 1 Vguyet Dang, ME, and Mark Hallett, MD Peenen of + Cortical and Spinal Dysfunctions Over’T ime in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Practice and Endpoint Accuracy with the Left and Right Hands of Old Adults: the rand ae peng gM odel BA and Roger M.E r ree of onew pmeayrougas me Kinetics — 1 Year After Stroke PhD eng-C 70, DSc, and W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhL SHORT REPORTS intrathecal Baclofen for Spasticity-Related Pain in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Efficacy and Factors Associated with Pain Relief Novel Mutation ii n | KCNAI Causes »titendie Ataxia with Paroxysmal Dyspnea eve k Hafsa Mamsa,B S, Joanna C. Jen, MD, PhD, Robert W. Baloh, MD, Normal Axonal lon Channel Function in Large Peripheral Nerve Fibers Following Chronic Ciguatera Sensitization Subcutaneous Immunoglobulin Infusion: A New Therapeutic Option in Chronic inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy md Rait CASE OF THE Complete Fatty Degeneration of Lumbar Erector Spinae Muscles Caused by a MONTH Primary Dysferlinopathy REGULAR Calendar of Events FEATURES AANEM News and Comments APRIL 2008 EDITORIAL panna and Motor5 Compeatans of Local Anesthetics riz Phi B, MAIN ARTICLES Dissociated Small Hand Muscle Atrophy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Frequency, Extent, and Specificity Satoshi Kuwabara, MD, Masahiro Sonoo, MD, Tetsuo Komori, MD, Toshio Shimizu, \ Fumiko Hirashima, MD, Akira Inaba, MD, Sonoko Misawa, MD, Yuki Hatanaka, MD and The Tokyo Metropolitan Neuromuscular Electrodiagnosis Study Group Increased PFK Activity and GLUT4 Protein Content in Mcardle’s Disease Holly A. Robertshaw, MSc, Sandeep Raha, PhD, Jan J. Kaczor, PhD, and Mark A. Tarnopolsky, PhD, MD Drug-Screening Platform Based on the Contractility of Tissue-Engineered Muscle Herman Vandenburgh, PhD, Janet Shansky, MS, Frank Benesch-Lee, BE Victoria Barbata, BA, Jonathan Reid, Lieven Thorrez, PhD, Robert Valentini, MD, PhD and Gregory Crawford, PhD Variable Phenotypes Associated with Mutations in DOK7 Jennifer A. Anderson, PhD, Jarae J. Ng, BS Constance Bowe, MD, Craig McDonald, MD, David P. Richman, MD, Robert L. Wollmann, MD, PhD, and Ricardo A Maselli N\ ID Age-Related Muscle Fatigue After a Low-Force Fatiguing Contraction is Explained by Central Fatigue Tejin Yoon, PhD, Bonnie Schlinder De-Lap, BS, Erin E. Griffith, BS dra K. Hunter, PhD Skeletal Muscle Telomere Length is Not Impaired in Healthy Physically Active Old Women and Men Elodie Ponsot, PhD, Jan Lexell, PhD, and Fawzi Kadi, PhD inclusion Body Myositis Functional Rating Scale: A Reliable and Valid Measure of Disease Severity C.E. Jackson, MD, R.J. Barohn, MD, G. Gronseth, MD, S. Pandya, MS, PT, L. Herbelin, BS and The Muscle Stua\ Group (MSG Work Increases the Incidence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in the General Population Yves Roquelaure, MD, Catherine Ha, MD, Marie-Christine Pelier-Cady, MD Guillaume Nic ola N 1D, Alexis Desc atna, MD, / innette Leclerc, Ph ), Guy Raimbeau Marcel Goldberg, MD, and Ellen Imber MD Stimulus Pulse-Width Influences H-Reflex Recruitment But Not H,,,.,/M Ratio max Olle Lagerquist, MSc, and David F. Collins, PhD Antibodies to Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein (Anti-MAG) in IgM Amyloidosis May Influence Expression of Neuropathy in Rare Patients Mercedes Garces-Sanchez, MD, PhD, Peter J. Dyck, MD, Robert A. Kyle, | Steven Zeldenrust, MD, PhD. Yanhong Wu, PhD, Shafeea } S. Ladha, MD stophe> r J. Klein, MM D Endotoxemia Does Not Limit Energy Supply in neoreaniyt Rat Skeletal Muscle Benoit Giannes i PhD, Marguerite IZQuierao, PhD, Christiar > Dain lIaSSO MS » Le f ur, Ph ID Patrick J. Cozzone PhD Mar ) Marie-Emmanuelle Le Guern, PhD, Jean-Marie Gillardin, PhD, and David Bendahan, PhD Gene and Protein Expression Associated with Protein Syethente and Breakdown in Paraplegic Skeletal Muscle Micah J. Drummond, PhD, Erin L. Glynn, BSc, Heid Stephen E. Dicarlo, PhD, and Blake B. Rasr SHORT REPORTS Comparison of Perception Threshold Testing one Thermal- eryy Testing Lior Lowenstein, MD, MS, Kathy Jesse, BS, and Kimberly Kenton, MD, ) Quantitative Motor Unit Potential Analysis in the Diaphragm: A Normative Study Simon Podnar, AAMTD) , DScc, and Anita Resman-GaSpersic, MD Single-Fiber Seetremypogreyny of Masseter Muscle in Myasthenia Gravis Adnan J. Khuraibet, MD, DSc, Rosser Rousseff, MD,) PhD, Raed Behbehani, ML Asmahan F.K. al 5) ubaili, MD, and Riyadh A. Khan, MD Atypical Facet of Mébius Syndrome: Association with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy CASES OF THE Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease: Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of MONTH the Brain and Nove! Mutation in the GBE7 Gene ul VIL, Alessand. ha| rtorarn a NAT L), F[ HT)- Autoantibody-Mediated Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction in a Patient with Chronic, Nondiabetic Neuropathy REGULAR Letters to the Editor FEATURES Calendar of Events AANEM News and Comments MAY 2008 EDITORIAL The More the Merrier? MAIN ARTICLES Optimizing Measurement of the Electrical Anisotropy of Muscle Cross-Sectional Area Reference weet forN erve Ultrasonography Ten-Second Exercise is Superior to 30-Second Exercise for Post-Exercise Facilitation in Diagnosing Lambert—Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome A Clinical Study of Hirayama Disease in Taiwan Pattern of Metalloprotease Activity and Myofiber Regeneration in Skeletal Muscles of mdx Mice Electrical Stimulation Increases Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 Gene Expression But Does Not Change Its Activity in Denervated Rat Muscle AAC Benefits of Interval-Training on Fatigue and Functional Capacities in Charcot- Marie—Tooth Disease Muscle Satellite Cell and Atypical Myogenic Progenitor Response Following Exercise Pilot Study of Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF)-Mobilized Peripheral Blood Stem Cells in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) er Reliability of Quantifying Foot and Ankle Muscle Strength in Very Young Children Histopathological Basis of Horner’s Syndrome in Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy Differs From That in Adult Brachial Plexus Injury Tissue Doppler Imaging for Detecting Onset of Muscle Activity } f Effect of Muscle-Fiber Velocity Recovery Function on Motor Unit Action Potential Properties in Voluntary Contractions Dario Farina, PhD, and Deborah Falla, PhD CASE OF THE Sporadic Bulbospinal Muscle emg. with Facial-Onset Sensory Neuropathy MONTH Gianluca IsoaAMATD r, adnd WoAa lte,r Tr oni A 1D SHORT REPORT Myotilin ee rege Syapeegy in the LGMD1A Mouse Model O- A 4 1 Seal jarvey, PhD, Yutao Liu, PhD wa E. Miller, PhD 1 Michael A. Hauser, PhD ALSFRS me —— ALS Scores: Discordance with Disease$ e esenged trei \ PAD, Gr J y Seidel, Bk Janki Par ha ! opr e AAT REGULAR Erratum FEATURES Calendar of Events AANEM News and Comments JUNE 2008 INVITED REVIEW Muscle Ultrasound in Neuromuscular Disorders ~ A AA A As AA 4 AAT DLP Sigrid Pillen, MD, Ilse M. P. Arts, MD, and Machiel J. Zwarts, MD, PAD MAIN ARTICLES Reference Jitter Values for Concentric Needle Electrodes in Voluntarily Activated Extensor rate Communis and Orbicularis Oculi Muscles Aris Kouyoumdjian, MD, PhD and Erik V. Stalberg, MD, PhD Effects of Gennes in Intracellular Action Potential on Potentials Recorded by Single-Fiber, Macro, and ee Electrodes Tod Jor | Aral IOZNIEV\V PhD: Ge me Vv. U VY PhD DS Alexander (5. Dimitr ma nnaA yWmitt ] PhD Changes in Intracellular Action Potentia! Profile Affect Parameters Used in Turns/ Amplitude Analysis Ad noerhrs UW. 7 LrUy mitro \ il ala! A A IN| nna 1 A-\. TL U ywmuitr4 Vd, I >} f ryc Changes in Na* Channel Expression and Nodal Persistent Na* Currents Associated with Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in Mice Miho NakaMtANa W ir Raha MN KazijakKia n V VakKala, Vil 1 KO Dada, vil Kazuaki Kana A Novel \Gnapenet poeent to Detect the mdx Mutation Carw an A ‘ BudowleA , B C oCc uZanne (G n ZaleZ MS,< Bayr uce [B9 ud owe & £ sheargq PAM and Roher VW/ Rranne PhN iJ. CISenperg, FNL, and MOVE VV. Golanger,r Thigh Muscle Function in Stroke Patients Revealed by Velocity-Encoded Cine Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance vein Hongmei Wen, MD, PhD, Zulin Dou, MD, PhD, T Havu ng, lL ha. Phoisl j 2akkaA eniu , AlD h/ ’ Motor Unit Recruitment and Bursts of Activity in the Surface Electromyogram During a Sustained Contraction fachary A. Fi MS, Mary E. Terr and Ros yer M Enoka, PhD inflammation-Induced Leukocyte Accumulation in injured Skeletal Muscle: Role of Mast Cells Claude H. Céte. PhD. Marie-Héléene Trembla and RBeer zyn nit e. PhD A New Method for Measuring Compound Muscle Action Potentials in Facial Palsy: a Preliminary Study Shin-ichi Haginomori, MD, Shin-Ichi Wad Ryuzaburo Nonaka, MD, Hiroshi Takenaka, MD, and 7) aku Maximal Versus Submaximal Intensity Stimulation with Variable Patterns Barbara M. Doucet, PhD, and Lisa Griffin, PhD SHORT REPORT reseanirey yne-d Foot Secondary to a Primary Tumor in the Conus Medullaris A\iexandra Makridou, MD, Andreas A. Argyriou, MD, PhD, Panagiotis Karanasios, MD, 1 Nicolaos Makris, MD, PhD CASES OF Autoimmune- Mediated prosec eg tieg Triggered by Borrelial Infection? THE MONTH A. Rupprecht, MD, Matthias Elstner, MD, Sabine Weil, MD A at+e r Ff iat MD Lambert-—Eaton Syndrome with Large-Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Lung eston, MD, Zaid Al-Kadhimi, MD, and Childhood auiitooss Acquired ymoeneayreny «a and igena te YUKI VVAkK ilT ) Pp> } D AA ya isak, a, A MD, N Naoz-o u Inn oue AUA D, ¢ Amyloidogenic Transthyretin Val30met Homozygote Showing Unusually Early- Onset Familial — ip soem MD. Phi , AA y AAP K 7K da U 2U Vid Cd, Vil » iK AAT) £ REGULAR Letters to the Editor FEATURES Reviewer Acknowledgments Calendar of Events AANEM News and Comments Volume 37 Author Index Volume 37 Subject Index Volume 37 Contents