Calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) as a novel target for ischemic neuroprotection.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human T-cell leukemia virus-1 (HTLV-1) associated myelopathy/tropic spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is induced by chronic inflammation in spinal cord due to HTLV-1 infection. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neopterin or proviral load are clinically measured as disease grading biomarkers, however, they are not exactly...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Ishihara M,Araya N,Sato T,Saichi N,Fujii R,Yamano Y,Ueda K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:It is unknown if treatment with rt-PA in mild acute ischemic stroke (MIS) is associated with improvement in long term cognition. Methods:Forty-five patients with suspected acute mild stroke or transient ischemic attacks with NIHSS ≤6 were enrolled in a prospective cohort. Cognitive testing was performed w...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Rosenbaum Halevi D,Bursaw AW,Karamchandani RR,Alderman SE,Breier JI,Vahidy FS,Aden JK,Cai C,Zhang X,Savitz SI

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The mechanism of action of anti-B cell therapy in multiple sclerosis (MS) is not fully understood. Here, we compared the effect of anti-CD20 therapy on microglial activation in two distinct focal rat models of MS. METHODS:The effect of anti-CD20 therapy on lesion formation and extralesional microglial activa...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Anthony DC,Dickens AM,Seneca N,Couch Y,Campbell S,Checa B,Kersemans V,Warren EA,Tredwell M,Sibson NR,Gouverneur V,Leppert D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three relatives carrying a t(4;8)(p15.2;p23.2) translocation had juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, self-limited photosensitive occipital epilepsy and migraine with aura. The t(4;8) translocation interrupted the coding sequence of CSMD1 gene and occurred immediately to the 3'UTR of STIM2 gene. STIM2 was overexpressed in the...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Crippa M,Malatesta P,Bonati MT,Trapasso F,Fortunato F,Annesi G,Larizza L,Labate A,Finelli P,Perrotti N,Gambardella A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Several single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with restless legs syndrome (RLS). This study investigated whether or not additional SNP variants increase the risk of RLS in migraineurs and in migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MoA) subgroups. METHODS:Migraineurs with and withou...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Lin GY,Lin YK,Liang CS,Lee JT,Tsai CL,Hung KS,Luo WJ,Tsai CK,Hsu YW,Ho TH,Yang FC

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells and B cells are crucial in the initiation and maintenance of multiple sclerosis (MS), and the activation of these cells is believed to be mediated through specific recognition of antigens by the T- and B-cell receptors. The antigen receptors are highly polymorphic due to recombination (T- and B-cell receptors)...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Lossius A,Johansen JN,Vartdal F,Holmøy T

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many observations suggest that mutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) could be responsible for the neurodegenerative changes of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we examined the signal intensity of the four alleles of each mtDNA nucleotide position (np) in whole blood of AD patients and age-matched controls using MitoChi...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Casoli T,Di Stefano G,Spazzafumo L,Balietti M,Giorgetti B,Giuli C,Postacchini D,Fattoretti P,Conti F

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder, which is characterized by relapses and remissions. Serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) is an emerging biomarker of disease activity but its clinical use is still limited. In this study, we aim to characterize the temporal association between ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Rosso M,Gonzalez CT,Healy BC,Saxena S,Paul A,Bjornevik K,Kuhle J,Benkert P,Leppert D,Guttmann C,Bakshi R,Weiner HL,Chitnis T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pathogenesis in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) appears to be due to aberrant expression, particularly in skeletal muscle nuclei, of the full-length isoform of DUX4 (DUX4-FL). Expression of DUX4-FL is known to alter gene expression and to be cytotoxic, but cell responses to DUX4-FL are not fully...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Homma S,Beermann ML,Boyce FM,Miller JB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system with marked heterogeneity in several aspects including pathological processes. Based on infiltrating immune cells, deposition of humoral factors and loss of oligodendrocytes and/or myelin proteins, four lesion patterns have been described. Pat...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Planas R,Metz I,Ortiz Y,Vilarrasa N,Jelčić I,Salinas-Riester G,Heesen C,Brück W,Martin R,Sospedra M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:We aimed to investigate mutation-specific white matter (WM) integrity changes in presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers of the C9orf72,MAPT, and GRN mutations by use of diffusion-weighted imaging within the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) study. Methods:One hundred and forty muta...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Jiskoot LC,Bocchetta M,Nicholas JM,Cash DM,Thomas D,Modat M,Ourselin S,Rombouts SARB,Dopper EGP,Meeter LH,Panman JL,van Minkelen R,van der Ende EL,Donker Kaat L,Pijnenburg YAL,Borroni B,Galimberti D,Masellis M,Tartagl

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the commonest hereditary ataxia in Caucasians. Most patients are homozygous for expanded GAA triplet repeats in the first intron of the frataxin (FXN) gene, involved in mitochondrial iron metabolism. Here, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to characterize the main determinants o...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Naeije G,Wens V,Coquelet N,Sjøgård M,Goldman S,Pandolfo M,De Tiège XP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Objective:Hispanics with multiple sclerosis (MS) present younger and more often with optic neuritis (ON) as compared to Whites in the western United States. Regional differences related to Hispanic genetic admixture could be responsible. We investigated the association between global genetic ancestry and...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Amezcua L,Beecham AH,Delgado SR,Chinea A,Burnett M,Manrique CP,Gomez R,Comabella M,Montalban X,Ortega M,Tornes L,Lund BT,Islam T,Conti D,Oksenberg JR,McCauley JL

更新日期：2018-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Rolandic epilepsy is a common genetic focal epilepsy of childhood characterized by centrotemporal sharp waves on electroencephalogram. In previous genome-wide analysis, we had reported linkage of centrotemporal sharp waves to chromosome 11p13, and fine mapping with 44 SNPs identified the ELP4-PAX6 locus in tw...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Panjwani N,Wilson MD,Addis L,Crosbie J,Wirrell E,Auvin S,Caraballo RH,Kinali M,McCormick D,Oren C,Taylor J,Trounce J,Clarke T,Akman CI,Kugler SL,Mandelbaum DE,McGoldrick P,Wolf SM,Arnold P,Schachar R,Pal DK,Stru

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:Clinical assessment of auditory attention in patients with disorders of consciousness is often limited by motor impairment. Here, we employ intersubject correlations among electroencephalography responses to naturalistic speech in order to assay auditory attention among patients and healthy controls. Methods...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Iotzov I,Fidali BC,Petroni A,Conte MM,Schiff ND,Parra LC

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pathogenic variants in SCN8A, encoding the voltage-gated sodium (Na+) channel α subunit Nav1.6, is a known cause of epilepsy. Here, we describe clinical and genetic features of all patients with SCN8A epilepsy evaluated at a single-tertiary care center, with biophysical data on identified Nav1.6 variants and ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Zaman T,Abou Tayoun A,Goldberg EM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The precise pathogenesis or neural correlates underlying levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) remains poorly understood. There is growing evidence of the involvement of the cerebellum in Parkinson's disease (PD). The present study evaluated the role of motor cerebellar connectivity in determining vulnerability t...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yoo HS,Choi YH,Chung SJ,Lee YH,Ye BS,Sohn YH,Lee JM,Lee PH

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) relies on proteins encoded by nuclear genes. Mutations in their coding sequences result in heterogenous clinical presentations featuring mtDNA instability in affected tissues. DNA2 is a multi-catalytic protein involved in the removal of single strand DNA during mtDNA replic...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Ronchi D,Liu C,Caporali L,Piga D,Li H,Tagliavini F,Valentino ML,Ferrò MT,Bini P,Zheng L,Carelli V,Shen B,Comi GP

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to investigate the association of the serum urate level with cortical thickness and white matter integrity in multiple system atrophy (MSA). METHODS:We recruited 75 MSA patients and 42 controls who underwent brain MRI and measured serum urate level at baseline. Using cortical thickness and tract-bas...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yoo HS,Chung SJ,Lee YH,Ye BS,Sohn YH,Kwon H,Lee PH

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an enigmatic autoimmune-driven inflammatory/demyelinating disease of the human central nervous system (CNS), affecting brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. The cause of the disease is not known and the number of effective treatments is limited. Despite some clear successes, tran...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： 't Hart BA,van Kooyk Y,Geurts JJ,Gran B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the safety of antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery. METHODS:We reviewed patients who underwent TLE surgery from 1995 to 2011, collecting data on doses, dates of AED initiation, reduction, and discontinuation. Predictors of seizure outcome were defined using ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yardi R,Irwin A,Kayyali H,Gupta A,Nair D,Gonzalez-Martinez J,Bingaman W,Najm IM,Jehi LE

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Distal motor neuropathies with a genetic origin have a heterogeneous clinical presentation with overlapping features affecting distal nerves and including spinal muscular atrophies and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This indicates that their genetic background is heterogeneous. PATIENT AND METHODS:In this w...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Marcos AT,Martín-Doncel E,Morejón-García P,Marcos-Alcalde I,Gómez-Puertas P,Segura-Puimedon M,Armengol L,Navarro-Pando JM,Lazo PA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 61-year-old man with past medical history significant for prediabetes, hyperlipidemia and high-grade prostate intraepithelial neoplasia presents with headaches for one month. Imaging of his brain reveals hydrocephalus and spine imaging reveals a cord lesion. These findings are discussed further in the case. ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yu M,Brooker S,Priyadarshini S

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is an autosomal dominant disease of which clinical manifestations resemble premature aging. We evaluated the contribution of telomere length in pathogenesis in 361 DM1 patients (12 with serial measurements) and 223 unaffected relative controls using qPCR assay. While no differences in b...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Wang Y,Best A,Fernández-Torrón R,Alsaggaf R,Garcia-Puga M,Dagnall CL,Hicks B,Thompson M,Matheu Fernandez A,Zulaica Ijurco M,Greene MH,Lopez de Munain A,Gadalla SM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm the diagnostic accuracy of candidate biomarkers in stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP), we prospectively enrolled ischemic stroke patients with NIHSS ≥ 10 on admission from March-2016 to August-2017. Blood samples were collected at baseline, 24 and 48 h after stroke onset. Biomarkers (MR-proADM, suPAR, SAA) w...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Zapata-Arriaza E,Mancha F,Bustamante A,Moniche F,Pardo-Galiana B,Serrano-Gotarredona P,Navarro-Herrero S,Pallisa E,Faura J,Vega-Salvatierra Á,Penalba A,Escudero-Martínez I,Ramos-Herrero VD,Azurmendi L,Charles Sanchez J,Mont

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The objective of this study was to evaluate the thrombus characteristics affecting the extent of recanalization to identify patients with severe cerebral venous sinus thrombus (CVT) more likely to benefit from endovascular therapy. Methods:Severe CVT patients scheduled for endovascular treatment were prospec...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yang X,Wu F,Liu Y,Duan J,Meng R,Chen J,Li D,Fan Z,Fisher M,Yang Q,Ji X

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Electroencephalography (EEG) features in the alpha band have been shown to differ between people with epilepsy and healthy controls. Here, in a group of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE), we seek to confirm these EEG features, and using simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging, we i...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Yaakub SN,Tangwiriyasakul C,Abela E,Koutroumanidis M,Elwes RDC,Barker GJ,Richardson MP

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase B (GMPPB) related phenotype spectrum ranges widely from congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2T (LGMD 2T) to severe congenital muscle-eye-brain syndrome. Our study investigates the clinicopathologic features of a patient with novel GMPPB mutat...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Tian WT,Zhou HY,Zhan FX,Zhu ZY,Yang J,Chen SD,Luan XH,Cao L

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Accurate representation of final infarct volume is essential for assessing the efficacy of stroke interventions in imaging-based studies. This study defines the impact of image registration methods used at different timepoints following stroke, and the implications for infarct definition in stroke research. ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Harston GW,Minks D,Sheerin F,Payne SJ,Chappell M,Jezzard P,Jenkinson M,Kennedy J

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:There is no consensus on the treatment of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) occurring in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with natalizumab (Nz). We report novel immune activating treatment with filgrastim of Nz-associated PML in MS patients treated at Rush University Medical Center. Me...

journal_title：Annals of clinical and translational neurology

authors： Stefoski D,Balabanov R,Waheed R,Ko M,Koralnik IJ,Sierra Morales F

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00