TITLE(S): Professor and Director, Neuropathology

BOARD CERTIFICATION: Neuropathology

Skeletal muscle and sural nerve diagnostic services: immuno- and enzyme histochemistry teased fiber preparations with quantitative assessment. Electron microscopy and immunofluorescence.

Muscle: 1 or more fresh fragment(s) of muscle, 1 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm on saline-moistened gauze.

Nerve: 3 cm long fresh segment of nerve on saline-moistened gauze.

Rapid delivery required.

Telephone: 513/558-4500

Email: decourgm@ucmail.uc.edu

Fax: 513/558-2289

Letter: 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229-0529 

Fifteen years’ experience in providing muscle and nerve diagnostic work-ups. Related publications: selected from 50 research articles and approximately 100 abstracts.

Williams A, de Courten-Myers GM, Fischer JE, Luo G, Sun X, Hasselgren PO. Sepsis stimulates release of myofilaments in skeletal muscle by a calcium-dependent mechanism. FASEB J 13:1435-1443, 1999.

Lewis W, Levine ES, Tankersley KO, Griniuviene B, de Courten-Myers GM, Tennan BD. Fialuridine (FIAU) cardiotoxicity includes mitochondrial destruction, vesicular fat, decreased mitochondrial DNA, and inhibition of DNA polymerase gamma. Lab Invest 76(1): 77-87, 1997.