"Muscle Spasticity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a "free interval") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p54)
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D009128
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.651.512 C10.597.613.550.550 C23.888.592.608.550.550
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Strong MJ, Garruto RM, Wolff AV, Chou SM, Fox SD, Yanagihara R. N-butyl benzenesulfonamide: a neurotoxic plasticizer inducing a spastic myelopathy in rabbits. Acta Neuropathol. 1991; 81(3):235-41.
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Mora CA, Garruto RM, Brown P, Guiroy D, Morgan OS, Rodgers-Johnson P, Ceroni M, Yanagihara R, Goldfarb LG, Gibbs CJ, et al. Seroprevalence of antibodies to HTLV-I in patients with chronic neurological disorders other than tropical spastic paraparesis. Ann Neurol. 1988; 23 Suppl:S192-5.