Summary
A systematic study of dystrophy-denervation in human muscle showed minimal morphometabolic differences between dystrophic and dystrophic-denervated muscle. The only certain conclusion is that denervation influences the rhythm of evolution of the dystrophy without impressing any of the few characteristics considered at present as peculiar to denervation.
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Es wird ein Fall beschrieben, in welchem ein Patient mit einer progressiven Muskeldystrophie auch eine Poliomyelitis durchgemacht hat. Bei der morphologischen und biochemischen Untersuchung zeigten sich nur geringfügige Unterschiede zwischen dem nur dystrophischen und dem sowohl dystrophisch wie durch Denervation betroffenen Muskel. Man kann einzig folgern, daß die Denervation zwar das Entwicklungstempo der Dystrophie beeinflußt, ohne jedoch durch Merkmale sich zu äußern, die als charakteristisch für eine Denervation betrachtet werden.
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Radu, H., Ionescu, V. & Radu, A. Duchenne muscular dystrophy and poliomyelitis. J. Neurol. 209, 225–235 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312544
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