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NEUROLOGY
卷 77, 期 3, 页码 235-241出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318225aabf
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- ALS Association
- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Neuralstem, Inc.
- GlaxoSmithKline
- sanofi-aventis
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
- Knopp Neurosciences Inc.
- Cytokinetics Inc.
- NIH
- NIH/NINDS
- Talecris Biotherapeutics
- Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
- Michael S. Ansari Gift Fund
- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.
- TEDCO-Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund
- U.S. Department of Defense
- ALS Association Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins
- CytRx Corporation
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Food & Drug Administration
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Woodruff Health Sciences Center (Emory University)
- UpToDate, Inc.
- SMA Foundation
Background: Improved outcome measures are necessary to reduce sample size and increase power in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) clinical trials. Motor unit number estimation (MUNE) is a potentially attractive tool. MUNE methods previously employed in multicenter trials exhibited excessive variability and were prone to artifact. Objective: To evaluate a modification of standard incremental MUNE in a multicenter natural history study of subjects with ALS. Methods: Fifty healthy subjects were evaluated twice and 71 subjects with ALS were studied repeatedly for up to 500 days. Side and nerve studied was based on clinical examination findings. Nerves were stimulated at 3 specified locations and 3 increments were obtained at each location. Average single motor unit action potential (SMUP) amplitude was calculated by adding the amplitude of the third increment at each location and dividing by 9; SMUP was divided into maximum CMAP amplitude to determine the MUNE. Results: Test-retest variability was 9% in normal subjects. Average MUNE for normal subjects was 225 (+/- 87), and was 41.9 (+/- 39) among subjects with ALS at baseline. Subjects with ALS showed clear decrements over time, with an overage rate of decline of approximately 9% per month. SMUP amplitude increased with time in a fashion consistent with the known pathophysiology of ALS. Conclusion: Multipoint incremental MUNE has a number of attributes that make it attractive as an outcome measure in ALS and other diseases characterized by motor unit loss. It can be rapidly performed on any EMG machine and has repeatability and rates of decline that favorably compare to other previously described methods. Neurology (R) 2011;77:235-241
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