Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

This is a cross section of a muscle biopsy: Blood vessels (red) between the muscle fibers and laminin-α2 (green), which surrounds each muscle fiber. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

A nerve biopsy involves the process of removing a small length of a peripheral nerve for histologic ... a properly processed nerve biopsy must include semi-thin sections and teased nerve fiber ...

According to a case–control study published in Neurology, the expression of proinflammatory cytokines is elevated in the affected skin of patients with small-fiber neuropathy (SFN).

In addition to the resulting image of the segmented nerve fibers, the network of fiber centerlines ... Three-millimeter skin punch biopsy specimens were taken under local anesthesia from the ...