NMD Pharma Initiates an Observational Pilot Study Investigating the Effects of Sarcopenia on Neuromuscular Transmission in Older Adults
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1 - NMD Pharma A/S, a biotech company developing novel therapeutics for neuromuscular disorders, today announces that it has initiated a pilot observational study to assess whether sarcopenia, a condition characterized by age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, is associated with neuromuscular junction (NMJ) transmission deficits in older adults.
The US study will be led by Professor Brian Clark, PhD of Ohio University and Professor William David Arnold, MD, of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and will involve 16 subjects: eight older sarcopenic individuals over the age of 70 and eight healthy young and middle aged individuals between the ages of 18 and 50. Subjects will undergo electrophysiological testing (repetitive nerve stimulation and single fibre electromyography (EMG) analyses) and diffe