Table 1.

Examples of striated muscles showing central nuclei in various muscular and non-muscular human diseases.

Muscle name	Primary disease	Bibliografic references
Medium pharyngeal constrictor	Obstructive sleep apnea	Ferini-Strambi et al., 1998
Deltoid muscle	Dengue	Malheiros et al., 1993
Rectus abdominis	Cancer-associated pre-cachexia	Zampieri et al., 2010a
Biceps brachii	Amyloid myopathy	Manoli et al., 2013
Rectus femoris	Centronuclear myopathy	Hung et al., 1991
Quadriceps	autoimmune Myositis	Zampieri et al., 2010b
Vastus lateralis	Myotonic dystrophy	Andersen et al., 2013