Exam 20: Muscles

The first symptoms of myasthenia gravis among women appear most often in which age group?

Spastic contraction of muscles known as tetany is caused by:

Destruction of muscle fibers in polymyositis is characterized by a release of enzymes,the most specific for muscle disease of which is:

Peripheral motor neurons are extensions of nerve cells that are typically located in the:

Patients with myasthenia gravis given edrophonium,an antagonist of cholinesterase,show:

Which of the following viruses is the best-known cause of myositis?

Which of the following muscular dystrophies involves the same gene as Duchenne-type dystrophy?

Malignant tumor of striated muscle is called:

A patient with myasthenia gravis was found to have an anterior mediastinal mass.This mass proved to be a tumor.Most likely it is a:

The most common histologic type of soft tissue sarcoma in adults is:

All the following are autoimmune diseases affecting the muscles except:

Which of the following is a typical "upper neuron injury"?

Skeletal muscles are:

Symptoms of muscle weakness in Duchenne-type dystrophy begin in:

Following wallerian degeneration,the nerve function is restored by the:

Which is the most common cause of muscle weakness and/or paralysis in infants and children?

Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy is inherited as a(n):

Frontal baldness,testicular atrophy,and muscle spasm arc typical of which autosomal dominant muscular dystrophy?

The transmission of impulses from the nerve to the striated muscle at the neuromuscular junction is mediated by the release of:

Botulism,a disease caused by a toxin from Clostridium botulinum,is marked by: