sodium-ethylxanthate and Nervous-System-Diseases

Topics: Cardiovascular Diseases; Disease; Endocrine System Diseases; Female; Humans; Liver Cirrhosis; Male; Nervous System Diseases; Sex; Sexual Behavior; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Urinary Tract Infections; Urologic Diseases

In this study, 145 healthy adults (20 to 94 years old, 69 women) were examined using ultrasound (US) imaging to obtain reference values of muscle parameters that were previously not available. We measured biceps and quadriceps sizes and subcutaneous fat thickness. To quantify muscle aspect, we defined and calculated the muscle aspect parameters muscle density, inhomogeneity and white-area index by digital image analysis. All muscle aspect parameters were found to increase with age, which may be due to age-related muscle replacement by fatty tissue and collagen. Other age-, weight- and gender-dependencies are also discussed. The complete set of muscle parameters was used to differentiate between typical myopathies and neuropathies in a group of 32 patients (24 to 79 years old, 18 women). We were successful in almost completely separating the two types of disorders based on abnormality of muscle aspect parameters alone. These preliminary results show that this set of normal muscle parameters can be used to help diagnose neuromuscular disorders. It will also facilitate follow-up in disease progression and therapy.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Arm; Body Mass Index; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Muscle, Skeletal; Muscular Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Reference Values; Sex; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Thigh; Ultrasonography

Topics: Aging; Brain; Cell Survival; Gene Expression; Genes; Humans; Huntington Disease; Models, Neurological; Nervous System Diseases; Parents; Sex

Topics: Bradycardia; Coitus; Cordotomy; Divorce; Ejaculation; Female; Fertility; Humans; Labor, Obstetric; Male; Marriage; Nervous System Diseases; Paraplegia; Pregnancy; Sex; Spinal Cord Diseases; Spinal Cord Injuries; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Urinary Incontinence

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Aging; Birth Weight; Child; Child, Preschool; Diabetes Complications; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Intellectual Disability; Limb Deformities, Congenital; Male; Muscular Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Obesity; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications; Sex

Topics: Body Height; Body Weight; Brain Damage, Chronic; Cephalometry; Child; Child Behavior Disorders; Child, Preschool; Congenital Abnormalities; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature, Diseases; Male; Mouth Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Parent-Child Relations; Poland; Pregnancy; Psychological Tests; Sex; Social Conditions; Vision Disorders

Topics: Brain Damage, Chronic; Child; Child Behavior Disorders; Dyslexia; Female; Humans; Intellectual Disability; Male; Movement Disorders; Nervous System Diseases; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications; Sex

Topics: Adult; Africa, Eastern; Black or African American; Black People; Humans; Male; Megacolon; Middle Aged; Nerve Degeneration; Nervous System Diseases; Parasympathetic Nervous System; Sex

Topics: Abnormalities, Drug-Induced; Brain; Brain Damage, Chronic; Classification; Female; Humans; Infections; Intellectual Disability; Metabolism, Inborn Errors; Neoplasms; Nervous System Diseases; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Sex; Skull; Statistics as Topic; Toxicology

Topics: Anthropometry; Birth Weight; Black People; Body Height; Cephalometry; Child; Growth; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Nervous System Diseases; New York; Sex; Statistics as Topic

Topics: Cerebellar Diseases; Genetics, Medical; Humans; Indians, South American; Nervous System Diseases; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Optic Atrophy; Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber; Sex; Spinal Cord; United States