 Muscle Spasticity
"Muscle Spasticity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a "free interval") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p54)
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D009128
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.651.512 C10.597.613.550.550 C23.888.592.608.550.550
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle Spasticity" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Wong D, Tortorelli S, Bishop L, Sellars EA, Schimmenti LA, Gallant N, Prada CE, Hopkin RJ, Leslie ND, Berry SA, Rosenblatt DS, Fair AL, Matern D, Raymond K, Oglesbee D, Rinaldo P, Gavrilov D. Outcomes of four patients with homocysteine remethylation disorders detected by newborn screening. Genet Med. 2016 Feb; 18(2):162-7.
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