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    Muscle & Nerve: Volume 55, Issue 2

    i-iv, 149-297, E6-E10
    February 2017
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  • Page: i
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

  • Pages: ii-iii
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

Issue Highlights

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  • Page: iv
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

Invited Review

Safety and pain in electrodiagnostic studies

Zachary N. London MD, 
  • Pages: 149-159
  • First Published: 28 September 2016

Clinical Research

Variations of lumbrical muscle innervation patterns in the hand, focusing on the dual innervation of the third lumbrical muscle

Mi-sun Hur PhD, 
  • Pages: 160-165
  • First Published: 02 June 2016

Repetitive nerve stimulation cutoff values for the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis

Alon Abraham MD,  Majed Alabdali MD,  Abdulla Alsulaiman MD,  Ari Breiner MD,  Carolina Barnett MD,  Hans D. Katzberg MD,  Leif E. Lovblom MSc,  Vera Bril MD, 
  • Pages: 166-170
  • First Published: 10 June 2016

Peripheral nerve high-resolution ultrasound in diabetes

Ari Breiner MD, MSc,  Mohammad Qrimli MD,  Hamid Ebadi MD,  Majed Alabdali MD,  Leif E. Lovblom MSc,  Alon Abraham MD,  Hana Albulahi MD,  Bruce A. Perkins MD, MPH,  Vera Bril MD, 
  • Pages: 171-178
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

Interleaved neuromuscular electrical stimulation reduces muscle fatigue

Jenny W.H. Lou BSc,  Austin J. Bergquist PhD,  Abdulaziz Aldayel PhD,  Jennifer Czitron BSc,  David F. Collins PhD, 
  • Pages: 179-189
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

Diagnostic accuracy of concentric needle jitter in myasthenia: Prospective study

Flavia C.N. Machado MD,  JOÃO A. Kouyoumdjian MD, PhD,  Paulo E. Marchiori MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 190-194
  • First Published: 27 June 2016

Membrane properties in small cutaneous nerve fibers in humans

Kristian Hennings PhD,  Ken Steffen Frahm PhD,  Laura Petrini PhD,  Ole K. Andersen PhD,  Lars Arendt-Nielsen PhD,  Carsten D. Mørch PhD, 
  • Pages: 195-201
  • First Published: 01 July 2016

One clinic's experience with carbon fiber orthoses in neuromuscular disease

Ani Mnatsakanian BS,  John T. Kissel MD,  Philip Terry CO,  Wendy M. King PT, 
  • Pages: 202-205
  • First Published: 30 June 2016

Evaluation Of freehand high-resolution 3-dimensional ultrasound of the median nerve

Johann Otto Pelz MD,  Maria Busch MD,  Anna Weinreich MD,  Dorothee Saur MD,  David Weise MD, 
  • Pages: 206-212
  • First Published: 07 July 2016

Posture-induced changes in peripheral nerve stiffness measured by ultrasound shear-wave elastography

Jane Greening PhD, MCSP,  Andrew Dilley PhD, 
  • Pages: 213-222
  • First Published: 11 July 2016

Basic and Translational Science

Effect of 3,4-diaminopyridine at the murine neuromuscular junction

Fiona Ng BS,  Diana C. Lee BS,  Leah A. Schrumpf BS,  Mary E. Mazurek BS,  Victoria Lee Lo BS,  Sharleen K. Gill BS,  Ricardo A. Maselli MD, 
  • Pages: 223-231
  • First Published: 02 June 2016
Open Access

Effects Of treadmill training on hindlimb muscles of spinal cord–injured mice

Camila R. Battistuzzo PhD,  Michelle M. Rank PhD,  Jamie R. Flynn PhD,  David L. Morgan PhD,  Robin Callister PhD,  Robert J. Callister PhD,  Mary P. Galea PhD, 
  • Pages: 232-242
  • First Published: 06 June 2016

Training at non-damaging intensities facilitates recovery from muscle atrophy

Yuta Itoh MS,  Taro Murakami PhD,  Tomohiro Mori MS,  Nobuhide Agata PhD,  Nahoko Kimura MS,  Masumi Inoue-Miyazu BS,  Kimihide Hayakawa PhD,  Takayuki Hirano BS,  Masahiro Sokabe PhD,  Keisuke Kawakami PhD, 
  • Pages: 243-253
  • First Published: 15 June 2016

Effect of constitutive inactivation of the myostatin gene on the gain in muscle strength during postnatal growth in two murine models

Amalia Stantzou PhD,  Vanessa Ueberschlag-Pitiot PhD,  Remi Thomasson PhD,  Denis Furling PhD,  Anne Bonnieu PhD,  Helge Amthor PhD,  Arnaud Ferry PhD, 
  • Pages: 254-261
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

Apoptosis in young and old denervated rat skeletal muscle

Gangpyo Lee MD,  Jae-Young Lim MD, PhD,  Walter R. Frontera MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 262-269
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

The PTPN22 gene is associated with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Adam Maundrell MBBS,  Sue Lester BSc(Hons),  Maureen Rischmueller MBBS, MD,  Catherine Hill MBBS, MD,  Leslie G. Cleland MBBS, MD,  Peter Blumbergs MBBS, FRCPA,  Michael Wiese BPharm, PhD,  Vidya Limaye MBBS, PhD, 
  • Pages: 270-273
  • First Published: 16 June 2016

Short Report

Repeated blood flow restriction induces muscle fiber hypertrophy

Mizuki Sudo PhD,  Soichi Ando PhD,  Yutaka Kano PhD, 
  • Pages: 274-276
  • First Published: 26 September 2016

Cases of the Month

Novel Col12A1 variant expands the clinical picture of congenital myopathies with extracellular matrix defects

Jaya Punetha MS,  Akanchha Kesari PhD,  Eric P. Hoffman PhD,  Monika Gos PhD,  Anna Kamińska MD, PhD,  Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk MD, PhD,  Irena Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz MD, PhD,  Ying Hu MS,  Yaqun Zou MD,  Carsten G. Bönnemann MD,  Maria JȨdrzejowska MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 277-281
  • First Published: 27 June 2016

Paraparetic Guillain-Barré syndrome: Nondemyelinating reversible conduction failure restricted to the lower limbs

Takeshi Kimachi MD,  Nobuhiro Yuki MD, PhD,  Norito Kokubun MD, PhD,  Shuhei Yamaguchi MD,  Benjamin R. Wakerley MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 281-285
  • First Published: 11 July 2016

Giant nerves in chronic inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy

Alexander Grimm MD,  Victoria Schubert MD,  Hubertus Axer MD,  Ulf Ziemann MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 285-289
  • First Published: 27 July 2016

Letters & Replies

Causes of neuropathy in patients referred as “Idiopathic neuropathy”

Tiago Geraldes MD,  Carlos Casasnovas Pons MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 290-291
  • First Published: 04 October 2016

Reply

Khosro Farhad MD,  Thomas H Brannagan III MD, 
  • Page: 291
  • First Published: 04 October 2016

Calendar of Events

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Calendar of Events

  • Page: 292
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

AANEM News and Comments

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AANEM News and Comments

  • Pages: 293-295
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

AANEM Application

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AANEM Application

  • Pages: 296-297
  • First Published: 22 January 2017

Noteworthy Cases

Anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein–negative distal acquired demyelinating symmetric neuropathy in association with a neuroendocrine tumor

Taimour Alam MRCP,  James J.P. Alix MRCP, PhD,  D. Ganesh Rao MD, FRCP,  Marios Hadjivassiliou MD, FRCP, 
  • Pages: E6-E7
  • First Published: 27 July 2016

Variable sensory nerve conduction parameters in late onset Friedreich ataxia

James J.P. Alix PhD, MRCP,  Taimour Alam MRCP,  Kate Garrard BSc,  Joanne Martindale MRCPath,  Priya Shanmugarajah MD, MRCP,  D. Ganesh Rao DM, FRCP,  Marios Hadjivassiliou MD, FRCP, 
  • Pages: E7-E8
  • First Published: 04 August 2016

Myosin myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia associated with a novel homozygous mutation in MYH2

Aurelio Hernández-Laín MD, PhD,  Jesús Esteban-Pérez MD,  Diana Cantero Montenegro MSc,  Cristina Domínguez-González MD, 
  • Pages: E8-E10
  • First Published: 04 August 2016