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Motor-evoked potential monitoring from urinary sphincter muscle during pediatric untethering surgery: a case series
PurposePostoperative urinary dysfunction following untethering surgery for spinal lipoma is devastating. To assess urinary function, we invented a...
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Pregnancy in myasthenia gravis: a retrospective analysis of maternal and neonatal outcome from a large tertiary care centre in Germany
PurposeMyasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare, potentially life-threatening autoimmune disease with fluctuating muscle weakness frequently affecting women...
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MRI evidence of extraocular muscle atrophy and fatty replacement in myasthenia gravis
PurposeThe aim of the study was to evaluate extraocular muscle (EOM) atrophy and fatty replacement in ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG) and generalized...
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Disease-associated metabolic alterations that impact satellite cells and muscle regeneration: perspectives and therapeutic outlook
Many chronic disease patients experience a concurrent loss of lean muscle mass. Skeletal muscle is a dynamic tissue maintained by continuous protein...
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Long-term effects of muscle-derived stem cell therapy on the regeneration of the urethra of female rats
Introduction and hypothesisThe aim was to analyze the long-term effects of muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) therapy in traumatized urethras of...
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Hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence to detect oral malignancy – part 1 - automated tissue classification of oral muscle, fat and mucosa using a light-weight 6-layer deep neural network
BackgroundHyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a promising non-contact approach to tissue diagnostics, generating large amounts of raw data for whose...
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Purine nucleoside phosphorylase as a target to treat age-associated lower urinary tract dysfunction
The lower urinary tract (LUT), including the bladder, urethra and external striated muscle, becomes dysfunctional with age; consequently, many older...
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Growth of muscles and nerves in the upper eyelid: a morphometrical and immunohistochemical study using term human fetuses
BackgroundThere is no information about muscle growth in eyelids with infrequent blinking in fetuses.
MethodsTo examine the muscle and nerve...
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Generation of muscle progenitors from human-induced pluripotent stem cells
BackgroundSmall molecules have a role in the differentiation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into different cell linages. The aim of...
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Rituximab and intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in PM/Scl antibody-associated disease: case-based review
Autoantibodies to the 75-kDa and 100-kDa subunits of the PM/Scl nucleolar protein complex are associated with an overlap syndrome, manifesting with...
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VITADIAL “Does correction of 25 OH-VITAmin D with cholecalciferol supplementation increase muscle strength in hemoDIALysis patients?”: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundMuscle strength decreases as kidney failure progresses. Low muscle strength affects more than 50% of hemodialysis patients and leads to...
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Prevalence and pubo-umbilical index of pyramidalis muscle in a select Kenyan population
PurposePyramidalis is a lower anterior abdominal wall muscle that is considered vestigial and shows variations in prevalence and size. It’s been...
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Direct evidence of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) as intermediate host of Toxoplasma gondii through isolation of viable strains
Toxoplasma gondii causes lifelong infection in most definitive and intermediate hosts. Clinical cases of toxoplasmosis in captive cheetahs have been...
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Comparing the efficacy of the Knack maneuver on pelvic floor muscle function and urinary symptoms using different teaching methods: a prospective, nonrandomized study
Introduction and hypothesisThis study was aimed at comparing the efficacy of Knack maneuver training taught using different techniques on pelvic...
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Adolescent Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Uterus–A Case report and Systematic Review
Gynecologic tumors in children are rare and represent < 5% of all pediatric neoplasms. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a soft tissue tumor arising from primitive...
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Evolution of inspiratory muscle function in children during mechanical ventilation
BackgroundThere is no universally accepted method to assess the pressure-generating capacity of inspiratory muscles in children on mechanical...
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Dysphagia and Trismus After Tooth Extraction
Clinicians should consider disorders of masticatory muscle including lateral pterygoid muscle as a differential diagnosis in patients presenting with...
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Comparison of gene expression between human and mouse iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes for stem cell therapies of cardiovascular defects via bioinformatic analysis
BackgroundPreclinical studies have demonstrated the potential use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to treat cardiovascular disease (CVD). In...
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