Neck Muscles - Innervation
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Contribution of occlusal activity to synaptogenesis in masticatory muscles.

30 Jul 2009 Synaptogenesis in the neuromuscular junction involves a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) switch and elimination. The microphthalmic mouse (mi/mi) with a mutation in the mitf gene cannot perform occlusal activity, because its teeth do not ... Read more...

The "Child in the Barrel syndrome"--severe pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a toddler.

28 Jun 2009 One week after a flu-like prodrome, an 18-month-old boy developed acute severe, symmetrical, painless weakness and wasting of the shoulder girdle and upper limbs, drooling, dysphagia, dysarthria, atrophy and fasciculations of the tongue. Milder ... Read more...

Altered trigeminal system excitability in menstrual migraine patients.

2 Jun 2009 To evaluate brainstem excitability in menstrual migraine (MM) patients and compare the electrophysiological parameters of the trigeminocervical reflex (TCR) during the perimenstrual (headache period) and follicular (headache-free) periods with those ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Neck Muscles - Innervation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [After lymph node biopsy. Pain and weakness in the right shoulder] 22 Sep 2009
• Contribution of occlusal activity to synaptogenesis in masticatory muscles. 30 Jul 2009
• The "Child in the Barrel syndrome"--severe pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a toddler. 28 Jun 2009
• Altered trigeminal system excitability in menstrual migraine patients. 2 Jun 2009
• A simple method of identifying the spinal accessory nerve in modified radical neck dissection: anatomic study and clinical implications for resident training. 30 May 2009
• Surgical anatomy of the spinal accessory nerve: is the great auricular point reliable? 30 May 2009
• Re: Brennan PA, Webb R, Kemidi F, Spratt J, Standring S. Great auricular communication with the marginal mandibular nerve--a previously unreported anatomical variant [Br. J. Oral. Maxillofac. Surg. 46 (2008) 492-493]. 27 May 2009
• The trigeminovascular system--quo vadis? 29 Apr 2009
• The time course of the probability of transition into and out of REM sleep. 29 Apr 2009
• Anatomic landmarks for localization of the spinal accessory nerve. 29 Apr 2009
• The long thoracic nerve: Its origin, branches, and relationship to the middle scalene muscle. 29 Apr 2009
• [Anatomic bases of the infrahyoid flap: vascular pedicles and innervation] 23 Apr 2009
• Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in response to lateral skull taps are dependent on two different mechanisms. 16 Apr 2009
• Head deviation in progressive supranuclear palsy: enhanced vestibulo-collic reflex or loss of resetting head movements? 10 Mar 2009
• Galvanic ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials provide new insight into vestibulo-ocular reflexes and unilateral vestibular loss. 7 Mar 2009
• Masticatory function and maturation of the jaw-opening reflex. 27 Feb 2009
• Keeping an eye on the vestibular system. 21 Feb 2009
• Sudden dysphagia in an elderly, quadriparetic patient. 11 Feb 2009
• Spinal accessory nerve lesions. 10 Feb 2009
• Ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) require extraocular muscles but not facial or cochlear nerve activity. 8 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Neck Muscles'

Definition: The neck muscles consist of the platysma, splenius cervicis, sternocleidomastoid(eus), longus colli, the anterior, medius, and posterior scalenes, digastric(us), stylohyoid(eus), mylohyoid(eus), geniohyoid(eus), sternohyoid(eus), omohyoid(eus), sternothyroid(eus), and thyrohyoid(eus).

Descriptor UI: D009334

Alternative terms: Neck Muscles; Muscle, Neck; Muscles, Neck; Neck Muscle;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; innervation; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A02.633.567.650;

History Note: 91(79); was see under MUSCLES 1979-90

Technical Notes: restrict to muscles of the neck as specified by MeSH definition: do not use for or include muscles of organs located in the neck, as the larynx (LARYNGEAL MUSCLES) or pharynx (PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES); /growth: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent