Browsing by Subject "Duchenne muscular dystrophy"

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    • Achievement of Virtual and Real Objects Using a Short-Term Motor Learning Protocol in People with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial 

      Massetti, Thais; Favero, Francis Meire [UNIFESP]; Menezes, Lilian Del Ciello de; Alvarez, Mayra Priscila Boscolo; Crocetta, Tania Brusque; Guarnieri, Regiani; Nunes, Fatima L. S.; Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira de Mello; Silva, Talita Dias da (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2018)
      Objective: To evaluate whether people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) practicing a task in a virtual environment could improve performance given a similar task in a real environment, as well as distinguishing whether ...

    • Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: 1-Year Locomotor Changes in Relation to a Control Group 

      Martini, Joyce; Caromano, Fatima Aparecida; Carvalho, Eduardo Vital; Goya, Priscila Albuquerque; Hayasaka, Rosana Massae [UNIFESP]; Nakazune, Silvia [UNIFESP]; Favero, Francis Meire [UNIFESP]; Voos, Mariana Callil (Sage Publications Inc, 2018)
      We compared the timed performance and compensatory movements of 32 boys (mean age = 10.0 years) with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and 38 healthy boys (mean age = 9.2 years) on 10-meter walking and four-step stair work ...

    • Caracterização da modulação autonômica e do perfil funcional de pessoas com Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne 

      Silva, Talita Dias da [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2016-10-17)
      Among Muscular Dystrophies, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common genetic neuromuscular disease. Abnormal autonomic signaling is increasingly recognized as an important symptom in neuromuscular diseases, ...

    • Computer task performance by subjects with Duchenne muscular dystrophy 

      Pinheiro Malheiros, Silvia Regina; da Silva, Talita Dias [UNIFESP]; Favero, Francis Meire [UNIFESP]; de Abreu, Luiz Carlos; Fregni, Felipe; Ribeiro, Denise Cardoso; de Mello Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2016)
      Aims: Two specific objectives were established to quantify computer task performance among people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). First, we compared simple computational task performance between subjects with DMD ...

    • Computer task performance by subjects with Duchenne muscular dystrophy 

      Pinheiro Malheiros, Silvia Regina; da Silva, Talita Dias [UNIFESP]; Favero, Francis Meire [UNIFESP]; de Abreu, Luiz Carlos; Fregni, Felipe; Ribeiro, Denise Cardoso; de Mello Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2016)
      Aims: Two specific objectives were established to quantify computer task performance among people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). First, we compared simple computational task performance between subjects with DMD ...

    • Cyclooxygenase-2 expression in skeletal muscle of knockout mice suffering Duchenne muscular dystrophy 

      Flavia, De Oliveira [UNIFESP]; Quintana, Hananiah Tardivo [UNIFESP]; Bortolin, Jeferson Andre [UNIFESP]; Gomes, Odair Alfredo; Liberti, Edson Aparecido; Ribeiro, Daniel Araki [UNIFESP] (Springer, 2013-05-01)
      The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in fibrotic lesion in mdx mice. A total of six male C57BL/10 mice and six C57BL/10-DMD/mdx were distributed into two groups: ...

    • Duchenne muscular dystrophy: alpha-dystroglycan immunoexpression in skeletal muscle and cognitive performance 

      Pereira, Conceição Campanario da Silva [UNIFESP]; Kiyomoto, Beatriz Hitomi [UNIFESP]; Cardoso, Ricardo; Oliveira, Acary Souza Bulle [UNIFESP] (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2005-12-01)
      The Duchenne muscular systrophy (DMD) is a muscular dystrophy with cognitive impairment present in 20-30% of the cases. In the present study, in order to study the relationship between the alpha-dystroglycan (alpha-DG) ...

    • Heart Rate Variability and Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Systematic Review 

      Silva, Talita Dias da [UNIFESP]; Massetti, Thais; Crocetta, Tania Brusque; Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira de Mello; Carll, Alex; Vanderlei, Luiz Carlos Marques; Arbaugh, Carlie; Oliveira, Fernando Rocha; Abreu, Luiz Carlos de; Ferreira Filho, Celso [UNIFESP]; Godleski, John; Ferreira, Celso [UNIFESP] (Springer, 2018)
      Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic recessive disorder with progressive muscle weakness. Despite the general muscle wasting, degeneration and necrosis of cardiomyocytes have been the main causes of morbidity and ...

    • Impact of corticotherapy, nutrition, and sleep disorder on quality of life of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy 

      Jeronimo, Giovanna [UNIFESP]; Nozoe, Karen T. [UNIFESP]; Polesel, Daniel N. [UNIFESP]; Moreira, Gustavo A. [UNIFESP]; Tufik, Sergio [UNIFESP]; Andersen, Monica L. [UNIFESP] (Elsevier Science Inc, 2016)
      Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the second most common hereditary genetic disease in humans and has elevated mortality. DMD is an X-linked, life-limiting progressive muscle-wasting disease found predominantly in boys ...

    • Patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are not more asymmetrical than healthy controls on timed performance of upper limb tasks 

      Artilheiro, Mariana Cunha; Sá, Cristina dos Santos Cardoso de [UNIFESP]; Favero, Francis Meire [UNIFESP]; Caromano, Fatima Aparecida; Voos, Mariana Callil (Assoc Bras Divulg Cientifica, 2017)
      This study aimed to investigate possible asymmetries and relationships between performance of dominant and non-dominant upper limbs (UL) in patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD/BMD), to compare UL ...