Treatment of multiple sclerosis with the pregnancy hormone estriol.

abstract：:A 65-year-old woman with normal pressure hydrocephalus experienced improved gait and hydrocephalus following surgical resection of a cauda equina neurinoma. Fibrinogen, detected in the cerebrospinal fluid, may be involved in the pathophysiological process of normal pressure hydrocephalus. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ohta K,Gotoh F,Amano T,Obara K

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dichloroacetate (DCA) stimulates pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) activity and lowers cerebral lactate concentrations. In the R6/2 and N171-82Q transgenic mouse models of Huntington's disease (HD), DCA significantly increased survival, improved motor function, delayed loss of body weight, attenuated the developme...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Andreassen OA,Ferrante RJ,Huang HM,Dedeoglu A,Park L,Ferrante KL,Kwon J,Borchelt DR,Ross CA,Gibson GE,Beal MF

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively recruited 10 patients who presented with urinary retention as a neurological deficit that was attributable to lateral medullary infarction. Of these, 9 patients underwent a urodynamic study, which demonstrated detrusor underactivity of the bladder in 7 patients. Urinary retention developed mainly when...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cho HJ,Kang TH,Chang JH,Choi YR,Park MG,Choi KD,Sung SM,Park KP,Jung DS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central motor conduction times for the adductor pollicis muscle, the twitch force of that muscle to scalp magnetic motor cortex stimulation, and the maximum force of phasic voluntary contraction of the same muscle were measured in 15 patients with multiple sclerosis. Two tests of manual dexterity of the same hand also...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： van der Kamp W,Maertens de Noordhout A,Thompson PD,Rothwell JC,Day BL,Marsden CD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a family with a new type of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) in which pure cerebellar ataxia is often accompanied with epilepsy. No CAG repeat expansions were detected at the spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type 1, 2, 3, 6, or 7 locus, and SCAs 4 and 5 were excluded by linkage analysis. We foun...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Matsuura T,Achari M,Khajavi M,Bachinski LL,Zoghbi HY,Ashizawa T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate immunopathogenetic roles of aquaporin-4 antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), we analyzed aquaporin-4 antibody titers, cellular and inflammatory markers in the CSF collected from 11 aquaporin-4 antibody seropositive patients. The CSF aquaporin-4 an...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sato DK,Callegaro D,de Haidar Jorge FM,Nakashima I,Nishiyama S,Takahashi T,Simm RF,Apostolos-Pereira SL,Misu T,Steinman L,Aoki M,Fujihara K

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of brain dysgenesis that resemble those in the Zellweger syndrome were demonstrated in a boy with an isolated defect of the peroxisomal bifunctional enzyme. There was bilateral centrosylvian pachygyria and polymicrogyria, diffuse hemispheric hypomyelination with heterotopic neurons, Purkinje cell heterotopias...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kaufmann WE,Theda C,Naidu S,Watkins PA,Moser AB,Moser HW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 5 patients who presented with an acute cauda equina syndrome, which we believe was due to infarction of the conus medullaris. In 3 patients, the onset was spontaneous, and in 2 patients it was secondary to temporary occlusion of the distal aorta during medical manipulation. Pain in the buttocks and posteri...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Anderson NE,Willoughby EW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Migraine aura is sparsely studied due to the highly challenging task of capturing patients during aura. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is likely the underlying phenomenon of aura. The possible correlation between the multifaceted phenomenology of aura symptoms and the effects of CSD on the brain has not ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Arngrim N,Hougaard A,Ahmadi K,Vestergaard MB,Schytz HW,Amin FM,Larsson HBW,Olesen J,Hoffmann MB,Ashina M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism whereby dystrophin deficiency leads to excessive fibrosis and muscle degeneration is not known. The absence of dystrophin in skeletal muscle is associated with reduced plasma membrane stability as evidenced by elevated serum levels of the cytoplasmic enzyme creatine kinase. Basic fibroblast growth factor...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： D'Amore PA,Brown RH Jr,Ku PT,Hoffman EP,Watanabe H,Arahata K,Ishihara T,Folkman J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with cauda equina syndrome secondary to long-standing ankylosing spondylitis are described. The roughly symmetrical neurological deficits were very slowly progressive and began long after the onset of the spondylitis, usually well after the rheumatological symptoms had stopped. Eventually every patie...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bartleson JD,Cohen MD,Harrington TM,Goldstein NP,Ginsburg WW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain tissue from normal individuals with incidental Lewy bodies and cell loss in pigmented substantia nigra neurons (asymptomatic Parkinson's disease) and age-matched control subjects without nigral Lewy bodies was examined biochemically. There was no difference in dopamine levels or dopamine turnover in the caudate ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dexter DT,Sian J,Rose S,Hindmarsh JG,Mann VM,Cooper JM,Wells FR,Daniel SE,Lees AJ,Schapira AH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a neurological disease among Cree Indian children in a northern Quebec village. The disease manifests as severe mental retardation, cerebral atrophy with white matter changes and calcifications, and systemic immunological abnormalities. Eleven cases are known in five families. The familial incidence of cases...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Black DN,Watters GV,Andermann E,Dumont C,Kabay ME,Kaplan P,Meagher-Villemure K,Michaud J,O'Gorman G,Reece E

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenetic role of anti-GM1 in chronic acquired demyelinating polyneuropathy (CADP) is uncertain. An association between antibodies and disease activity has not yet been established. In 8 patients with CADP followed longitudinally, anti-GM1 antibodies were monitored with a standardized enzyme-linked immunosorben...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bech E,Andersen H,Orntoft TF,Jakobsen J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson disease, and Alzheimer disease are unknown. Furthermore, treatment for two of these conditions is almost totally lacking. The thesis is presented that each of these disorders is due to lack of a disorder-specific neurotrophic hormone. The hormone would be elaborat...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Appel SH

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intracranial electroencephalography (ICEEG) with chronically implanted electrodes is a costly invasive diagnostic procedure that remains necessary for a large proportion of patients who undergo evaluation for epilepsy surgery. This study was designed to evaluate whether magnetic source imaging (MSI), a noninv...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Knowlton RC,Razdan SN,Limdi N,Elgavish RA,Killen J,Blount J,Burneo JG,Ver Hoef L,Paige L,Faught E,Kankirawatana P,Bartolucci A,Riley K,Kuzniecky R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proven remarkably effective at identifying reliably associated genetic variants, the biology underlying these discoveries is rarely immediately apparent and in most cases seems bound to require extensive fine mapping and functional analysis before it is revealed. In...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sawcer S,Wason J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a common type of idiopathic generalized epilepsy characterized by myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic, and in 30% of patients, absence seizures. We studied a three-generation pedigree of 33 members, 10 of whom were clinically affected with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or presented with su...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Serratosa JM,Delgado-Escueta AV,Medina MT,Zhang Q,Iranmanesh R,Sparkes RS

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrabenazine is considered to act in a manner similar to reserpine to reduce the involuntary movements of tardive dyskinesia or Huntington's disease and to improve psychoses. We determined that tetrabenazine also has properties of a dopamine receptor antagonist by testing the ability of tetrabenazine to block the inh...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Login IS,Cronin MJ,MacLeod RM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topography and magnitude of increase in peripheral type benzodiazepine binding sites (omega 3 sites) was investigated autoradiographically in the brains of patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease, with multiple sclerosis, and with malignant glioma. 3H-PK 11195, a selective omega 3 site ligand, was employed....

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Benavides J,Cornu P,Dennis T,Dubois A,Hauw JJ,MacKenzie ET,Sazdovitch V,Scatton B

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of glucose metabolism is often applied for the localization of epileptogenic brain regions, but hypometabolic areas are often larger than or can miss epileptogenic cortex in nonlesional neocortical epilepsy. The present study is a three-dimensional brain surface analysis designed to ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Juhász C,Chugani DC,Muzik O,Watson C,Shah J,Shah A,Chugani HT

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duration of the antiparkinsonian action of levodopa was studied in 48 patients with various response patterns to the oral administration of the dopamine precursor. Deterioration in motor scores after abrupt cessation of a steady-state intravenous levodopa infusion occurred at two successive rates: an initial rapid...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fabbrini G,Mouradian MM,Juncos JL,Schlegel J,Mohr E,Chase TN

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological evidence suggests that alterations of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may occur in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) dementia (HIVD). Increased BBB permeability could contribute to the development of dementia by facilitating the entry of activated and infected monocytes, as well as potenti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Conant K,McArthur JC,Griffin DE,Sjulson L,Wahl LM,Irani DN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD) is a late-onset, slowly progressive disorder of the nervous system caused by glycogen branching enzyme (GBE) deficiency in a subgroup of patients of Ashkenazi Jewish origin. Similar biochemical finding is shared by glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD IV) that, in contrast to AP...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lossos A,Meiner Z,Barash V,Soffer D,Schlesinger I,Abramsky O,Argov Z,Shpitzen S,Meiner V

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizures often unresponsive to pharmacological treatment. Brain inflammation is considered a crucial etiopathogenetic mechanism of epilepsy that could be targeted to control seizures. Specific inflammatory mediators overexpressed in human e...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Librizzi L,Noè F,Vezzani A,de Curtis M,Ravizza T

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of unknown etiology. Although the prevalent view regards a CD4+ -lymphocyte autoimmune reaction against myelin at the root of the disease, recent studies propose autoimmunity as a secondary reaction to idiopathic brain damage...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Luchicchi A,Hart B,Frigerio I,van Dam AM,Perna L,Offerhaus HL,Stys PK,Schenk GJ,Geurts JJG

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral ptosis is reported with unilateral hemispheric lesions, suggesting partial lateralization of the control of the levator palpebrae superioris. There is a tight synkinesis between vertical eye and eyelid movements, but a similar, lateralized control of vertical gaze has not been previously described. We report...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Averbuch-Heller L,Stahl JS,Remler BF,Leigh RJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine changes in the response properties of meningeal nociceptors that might lead to migraine pain and examine endogenous processes that could play a role in mediating them using a clinically relevant model of migraine triggering, namely infusion of the nitric oxide (NO) donor nitroglycerin (NTG). METHO...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Zhang X,Kainz V,Zhao J,Strassman AM,Levy D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a French amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) family with two distinct mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene. The D90A mutation has been well described and clearly shown to cause recessive ALS. In this family, affected individuals are heterozygous for the D90A mutation and also carry a sin...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hand CK,Mayeux-Portas V,Khoris J,Briolotti V,Clavelou P,Camu W,Rouleau GA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man was diagnosed 8 years earlier with globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD, Krabbe disease) by his severe deficiency of galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity. He was found to have eight nucleotide changes on the two copies of his GALC gene, including two in the leader sequence, four considered polymorphisms,...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Luzi P,Rafi MA,Wenger DA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00