Muscle symptoms in patients who are treated with statins and have normal creatine kinase levels are not well understood. To report biopsy-confirmed myopathy and normal creatine kinase levels associated with sta
To test the hypothesis that patients with normal serum levels of creatine kinase (CK) but elevated percentages of MB isoenzyme fractions in suspected myocardial infarction may have sustained clinically significant events, we studied the hospital course of 347 consecutive patients admitted with suspected ...
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As a result, the test caused muscle damage evidenced by an increase in circulating creatine kinase and myoglobin. This was accompanied by an increase in protein carbonyls in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Activities of antioxidant enzymes (catalase, glutathione peroxidase and reductase,...
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Deficiency of carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CTP II), was the cause of the muscle pain syndrome and myoglobinuria following strenuous exercise in an otherwise healthy young man. During fasting, serum creatine kinase remained low and ketogenesis was normal. The clearance of a fat emulsion and ...
Amrinone also decreased IR injury in isolated rat hearts as shown by decreased levels of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase in the coronary effluent[99]. The authors attributed the protective effects to the possibility of altered Ca2+ handling by amrinone in the myocardium. Pharmacologic ...
So, the purpose of this study was to investigate metabolic levels of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA), myo-inositol (mI), choline (Cho), and creatine (Cr) in the medial orbital prefrontal cortex in euthymic bipolar type I outpatients, with and without history of suicide attempts. We hypothesized th...
Estimations of both lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase isoenzymes allowed all the tissues examined to be distinguished and were therefore more likely to allow tissue-specific isoenzyme patterns to be detected in serum than the estimation of the isoenzymes of either enzyme alone....
Decreased levels of high energy phosphate flux rate have been reported in patients with LVH due to aortic stenosis [323], and in numerous animal models of pressure overload or myocardial remodeling after severe ischemic injury [289,324–327]. In early mild LVH, creatine phosphate/ATP levels ...