Home-based functional electrical stimulation of human permanent denervated muscles: a narrative review on diagnostics, managements, results and byproducts …

H Kern, U Carraro - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) produces muscle wasting that is especially severe after complete
and permanent damage of lower motor neurons, as can occur in complete conus and cauda …

[HTML][HTML] Role of radiologic imaging in genetic and acquired neuromuscular disorders

P Ortolan, R Zanato, A Coran, V Beltrame… - European journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Great technologic and clinical progress have been made in the last two decades in
identifying genetic defects of several neuromuscular diseases, as Spinal Muscular Atrophy …

Assessing cardiovascular risks from a mid-thigh CT image: a tree-based machine learning approach using radiodensitometric distributions

C Ricciardi, KJ Edmunds, M Recenti, S Sigurdsson… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The nonlinear trimodal regression analysis (NTRA) method based on radiodensitometric CT
distributions was recently developed and assessed for the quantification of lower extremity …

Advanced quantitative methods in correlating sarcopenic muscle degeneration with lower extremity function biometrics and comorbidities

K Edmunds, M Gíslason, S Sigurðsson, V Guðnason… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Sarcopenic muscular degeneration has been consistently identified as an independent risk
factor for mortality in aging populations. Recent investigations have realized the quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Use it or lose it: tonic activity of slow motoneurons promotes their survival and preferentially increases slow fiber-type groupings in muscles of old lifelong …

S Mosole, U Carraro, H Kern, S Loefler… - European journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Histochemistry, immuno-histochemistry, gel electrophoresis of single muscle fibers and
electromyography of aging muscles and nerves suggest that: i) denervation contributes to …

[HTML][HTML] 3D false color computed tomography for diagnosis and follow-up of permanent denervated human muscles submitted to home-based Functional Electrical …

U Carraro, KJ Edmunds, P Gargiulo - European Journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This report outlines the use of a customized false-color 3D computed tomography (CT)
protocol for the imaging of the rectus femoris of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients suffering …

Nonlinear trimodal regression analysis of radiodensitometric distributions to quantify sarcopenic and sequelae muscle degeneration

KJ Edmunds, Í Árnadóttir, MK Gíslason… - … Methods in Medicine, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Muscle degeneration has been consistently identified as an independent risk factor for high
mortality in both aging populations and individuals suffering from neuromuscular pathology …

Biophysical stimulation for in vitro engineering of functional cardiac tissues

A Korolj, EY Wang, RA Civitarese, M Radisic - Clinical Science, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Engineering functional cardiac tissues remains an ongoing significant challenge due to the
complexity of the native environment. However, our growing understanding of key …

[HTML][HTML] Mobility disorders and pain, interrelations that need new research concepts and advanced clinical commitments

S Sajer - European Journal of Translational Myology, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This Perspective will discuss topics recently suggested by Prof. Helmut Kern, Vienna,
Austria, to advance the research activities of his team, that is: Topic A, 10 years post RISE; …

Quantitative, label-free evaluation of tissue-engineered skeletal muscle through multiphoton microscopy

BC Syverud, MA Mycek, LM Larkin - Tissue Engineering Part C …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
The lack of tools for assessing engineered tissue viability and function in a noninvasive
manner is a major regulatory and translational challenge facing tissue engineers. Label …