Mechanisms of myofascial pain

MS Jafri - International scholarly research notices, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Myofascial pain syndrome is an important health problem. It affects a majority of the general
population, impairs mobility, causes pain, and reduces the overall sense of well‐being …

Guidelines on clinical presentation and management of nondystrophic myotonias

BC Stunnenberg, S LoRusso, WD Arnold… - Muscle & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The nondystrophic myotonias are rare muscle hyperexcitability disorders caused by gain‐of‐
function mutations in the SCN4A gene or loss‐of‐function mutations in the CLCN1 gene …

Skeletal muscle regeneration with 3D bioprinted hyaluronate/gelatin hydrogels incorporating MXene nanoparticles

HJ Jo, MS Kang, HJ Heo, HJ Jang, R Park… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been significant progress in the field of three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting
technology, leading to active research on creating bioinks capable of producing structurally …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired dual-channel speech recognition using graphene-based electromyographic and mechanical sensors

H Tian, X Li, Y Wei, S Ji, Q Yang, GY Gou… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is helpful to improve quality of life. However, the
performance of ASR degrades in the case of noisy environment, limited privacy, and speech …

Extracellular potassium homeostasis: insights from hypokalemic periodic paralysis

CJ Cheng, E Kuo, CL Huang - Seminars in nephrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Extracellular potassium makes up only about 2% of the total body's potassium store. The
majority of the body potassium is distributed in the intracellular space, of which about 80% is …

High-pressure processing of beef increased the in vitro protein digestibility in an infant digestion model

S Lee, K Jo, YS Choi, S Jung - Meat Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Beef is an ideal protein source for use as a complementary food in infants. Considering the
limited protein-digesting capacity of infants, it is required to enhance protein digestibility …

Zombie ant death grip due to hypercontracted mandibular muscles

CA Mangold, MJ Ishler, RG Loreto… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
There are numerous examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of the hosts that
they infect. One such host–pathogen relationship occurs between the 'zombie-ant fungus' …

Human body–electrode interfaces for wide-frequency sensing and communication: A review

K Polachan, B Chatterjee, S Weigand, S Sen - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Several on-body sensing and communication applications use electrodes in contact with the
human body. Body–electrode interfaces in these cases act as a transducer, converting ionic …

Asymmetric PEDOT: PSS trilayers as actuating and sensing linear artificial muscles

K Rohtlaid, GTM Nguyen… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soft ionic actuators and sensors have been intensively studied over the last 20 years. The
bending trilayer configuration has been considered a standard architecture, allowing the …

Effects of visual input on changes in the bioelectrical activity of the cervical and masticatory muscles in myopic subjects

G Zieliński, A Matysik-Woźniak, M Baszczowski… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The study aimed to analyze the changes within the bioelectrical activity of the cervical spine
and masticatory muscles during the change of visual stimulus—open and closed eyes test …