Journal article
Motoneurone Dysfunction in Patients with Hemiplegie Atrophy
Abstract
THE nature of the mechanism responsible for the wasting of muscles in patients after lesions of the upper moto-neurone has been the subject of many studies1,2 and various possibilities are summarized in Fig. 1. The simplest mechanism would be disuse alone; but atrophy might also result from disturbed blood flow in muscles of paralysed limbs or from a secondary arthritis. Another possibility is that an upper moto-neurone lesion deprives muscle …
Authors
MCCOMAS AJ; SICA REP; UPTON ARM; AGUILERA N; CURRIE S
Journal
Nature, Vol. 233, No. 35, pp. 21–23
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
September 1971
DOI
10.1038/newbio233021a0
ISSN
0028-0836