Behavior of jittering potential before and after impulse blockings: a preliminary study in myasthenia gravis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Behavior of jittering potential before and after impulse blockings: a preliminary study in myasthenia gravis

Published:2024-06-14 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:2093-9868
Container-title:Biomedical Engineering Letters
language:en
Short-container-title:Biomed. Eng. Lett.

Author:

Artuğ N. Tuğrul^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractNeuromuscular junction disorders lead to secession of bioelectrical activity transmission between motor nerve endings and muscle fibers. In diseases that are severe enough, impulse blockings are observed. This study aims to reveal the behavior of neuromuscular junction before and after impulse blockings. Fourteen recordings harboring impulse blockings from nine myasthenia gravis (MG) patients were included. Recordings were made from frontalis muscle by using concentric needle electrode during voluntary contraction. One hundred traces were acquired in each session. In addition to well-known jitter parameters, new parameters were calculated such as number of consecutive impulse blocking groups, number of impulse blockings in each group, ratio of maximum number of consecutive impulse blockings to all number of blockings. Graphics were composed to show location change behavior of jittering potential in all traces. For jittering potential, before or after a single impulse blocking the amount of getting further away from trigger peak was greater than getting closer to trigger peak. However, after consecutive impulse blockings the amount of getting closer to trigger peak was greater than the amount of getting further away. The behavior of neuromuscular junction before and after impulse blockings was demonstrated in MG patients. Moreover, new features were extracted for jitter studies. Building models for different diseases according to their impulse blockings may be possible with the developed algorithm. Graphical abstract

Funder

Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13534-024-00401-3.pdf

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