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Chapter 8 - Some Aspects of the Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Robert Laureno
Robert Laureno
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Disease of the lower motor neuron causes a decrease in strength and myotatic reflexes. Involved muscle shows weakness and twitching. The latter is of two types, fibrillation and fasciculation. Fibrillation is due to spontaneous depolarization of single muscle fiber. Fasciculation is due to spontaneous depolarization of the many muscle fibers of a motor unit. As a rule, fibrillation is pathological. Fasciculation may be pathological or benign.

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Lower motor neuronGroup atrophyfibrillationdenervation atrophycollateral reinnervation
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Insights into Clinical Neurology , pp. 48 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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