Fathi Davood, Nafissi Shahriar, Attarian Shahram, Neuwirth Christoph, Fatehi Farzad
Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Neurol. 2019 Jul 6;18(3):119-126.
Motor unit number index (MUNIX) is an electrophysiological technique to give an estimate of functioning motor neurons in a muscle. For any given neurophysiological technique for the use in clinical or research studies, reproducibility between different operators and in a single operator in different times is one of the most important qualities, which must be evaluated and approved by different examiners and centers. After its introduction, testing the reproducibility of MUNIX was the aim of many studies to show this quality of the technique. In this review, we aimed to summarize all the studies, which have been performed up to now to approve MUNIX reproducibility in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis comparing healthy individuals.
运动单位数量指数(MUNIX)是一种电生理技术,用于估计肌肉中功能正常的运动神经元数量。对于临床或研究中使用的任何给定神经生理技术而言,不同操作者之间以及同一操作者在不同时间的可重复性是最重要的特性之一,必须由不同的检查者和中心进行评估和认可。自其引入以来,测试MUNIX的可重复性一直是许多研究的目标,以证明该技术的这一特性。在本综述中,我们旨在总结迄今为止为验证肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者与健康个体相比MUNIX可重复性而进行的所有研究。