Simvastatin enhances learning and memory independent of amyloid load in mice.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A study was undertaken to examine the association between overall cardiovascular health as recently defined by the American Heart Association in young adulthood to middle age and cognitive function in midlife. Overall ideal cardiovascular health incorporates 7 metrics, including the avoidance of overweight or...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Reis JP,Loria CM,Launer LJ,Sidney S,Liu K,Jacobs DR Jr,Zhu N,Lloyd-Jones DM,He K,Yaffe K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six patients with late-stage Parkinson disease were given 0.4 to 15 mg of pergolide mesylate daily in addition to, or as replacement for, levodopa or bromocriptine therapy. Despite treatment with individually determined optimum doses of levodopa, bromocriptine, and anticholinergics, they had shown response fail...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lang AE,Quinn N,Brincat S,Marsden CD,Parkes JD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated vertigo with horizontal positional nystagmus as an impending sign of a central lesion has rarely been reported. Here we present neuro-otologic findings of patients with these clinical signs. Lesion overlays from 6 patients with ageotropic positional nystagmus revealed that the nodulus and vermis are common ar...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lee HJ,Kim ES,Kim M,Chu H,Ma HI,Lee JS,Koo JW,Kim HJ,Hong SK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the prognostic implications of epilepsy duration and age at surgery for seizure outcomes after frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery. METHODS:We reviewed 158 patients who underwent FLE surgery from 1995 to 2010. The primary outcome was seizure freedom at last follow-up (Engel class IA). Analyses emp...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Simasathien T,Vadera S,Najm I,Gupta A,Bingaman W,Jehi L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies that target CD20 expressing B cells represent an important new treatment option for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). B-cell-depleting therapy is highly effective against relapsing forms of the disease and is also the first treatment approach proven to protect against disability worsening in...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Greenfield AL,Hauser SL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families with a point mutation in mtDNA associated with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease showed pronounced clinical heterogeneity. The mothers of the two families had adult-onset myopathy with ragged-red fibers, partial deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase, and sensory neuropathy. Members of the first...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Graf WD,Sumi SM,Copass MK,Ojemann LM,Longstreth WT Jr,Shanske S,Lombes A,DiMauro S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing spectrum of diseases has been shown to be associated with the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), most notably a chronic, progressive myelopathy termed HTLV-I--associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis and adult T-cell leukemia. HTLV-II is a close relative of HTLV-I and is structura...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jacobson S,Lehky T,Nishimura M,Robinson S,McFarlin DE,Dhib-Jalbut S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posterior choroidal artery (PChA) territory infarcts remain the least well-known type of thalamic infarcts. Our study of 10 personal cases, selected from 2,925 stroke patients admitted consecutively to a community-based primary care center, and 10 published cases of unilateral PChA territory infarct suggests that they...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Neau JP,Bogousslavsky J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By most measures, academic neurology is thriving as never before, yet convening forces are changing the face of academic neurology. This report focuses on changes that academic neurology and the American Neurological Association could undertake to seize new opportunities and resist damaging potential changes. These pr...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Griffin JW,Griggs RC,Barchi R,Schneck SA,Moses H 3rd

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Chronic seizures in women can have adverse effects on reproductive function, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, but it has been difficult to dissociate the effects of epilepsy from the role of antiepileptic drugs. To distinguish the effects of chronic seizures from medication, we used the laboratory rat, be...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Scharfman HE,Kim M,Hintz TM,MacLusky NJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the ability of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a subset of adult stem cells from bone marrow, to cure experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. METHODS:The outcome of the injection of MSCs, in mice immunized with the peptide 139-151 of the proteolipid protein (PLP), was studied analyzing clinical...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Gerdoni E,Gallo B,Casazza S,Musio S,Bonanni I,Pedemonte E,Mantegazza R,Frassoni F,Mancardi G,Pedotti R,Uccelli A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study in seven mitochondrial myopathy patients (MM), we investigated whether lowering of lactate with dichloroacetate (DCA) can improve exercise tolerance and oxidative capacity in MM. DCA lowered plasma lactate at rest and during exercise (from 10.5 +/- 2.0 to 5.0 +/...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Vissing J,Gansted U,Quistorff B

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of various enhancement techniques as opposed to nonenhanced CT scanning was compared in 15 baboons with cerebral infarction secondary to embolization of the left middle cerebral artery. The most prominent CT findings in infarction included an area of low absorption in the opercula--basal ganglia--centrum sem...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Drayer BP,Dujovny M,Wolfson SK Jr,Boehnke M,Cook EE,Rosenbaum AE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 160 consecutive patients with glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma to evaluate the long-term consequences of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. We defined long-term survivors as those patients with glioblastoma or anaplastic astrocytoma who lived at least 100% longer than median survival...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Imperato JP,Paleologos NA,Vick NA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients develop persistent CD8 hyperlymphocytosis and a Sjogren's syndrome-like syndrome associated with multivisceral CD8 T-cell infiltration, known as the diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome (DILS). Patients with DILS tend to have higher CD4 cell count...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Moulignier A,Authier FJ,Baudrimont M,Pialoux G,Belec L,Polivka M,Clair B,Gray F,Mikol J,Gherardi RK

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic, low-dose exposure to pesticides is suspected to increase the risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), but data are inconclusive. METHODS:We prospectively examined whether individuals exposed to pesticides have higher risk for PD than those not exposed. The study population comprised participants in the Ca...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ascherio A,Chen H,Weisskopf MG,O'Reilly E,McCullough ML,Calle EE,Schwarzschild MA,Thun MJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer II of the entorhinal cortex contains the cells of origin for the perforant path, plays a critical role in memory processing, and consistently degenerates in end-stage Alzheimer's disease. The extent to which neuron loss in layer II of entorhinal cortex is related to mild cognitive impairment without dementia has...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kordower JH,Chu Y,Stebbins GT,DeKosky ST,Cochran EJ,Bennett D,Mufson EJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies anti-Leu-19 and anti-NKH-1 recognize the CD56 differentiation antigen expressed on natural killer (NK) cells and on a T-cell subset. Because CD56 is an isoform of neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM), we examined its expression on human muscle using antibodies to Leu-19, NKH-1, and purified ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Illa I,Leon-Monzon M,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Nerve fibers containing neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), substance P (SP), and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) were seen in the adventitia or at the adventitia-media border of the human temporal artery. Pharmacological experiments on isolated temporal artery segments revealed that ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jansen I,Uddman R,Hocherman M,Ekman R,Jensen K,Olesen J,Stiernholm P,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten laminin alpha2-deficient patients were identified by both immunofluorescence and immunoblotting (30% of congenital muscular dystrophy patients tested). Three of the laminin alpha2-deficient patients were carrying a diagnosis of infantile polymyositis prior to immunostaining studies. The clinical features in the 10...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pegoraro E,Mancias P,Swerdlow SH,Raikow RB,Garcia C,Marks H,Crawford T,Carver V,Di Cianno B,Hoffman EP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 9 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and in 27 controls, dopamine and homovanillic acid concentrations, choline acetyltransferase (CAT) activity, and the number of [3H]spiperone and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate binding sites were measured post mortem in the striatum (caudate nucleus, putamen, and nucleus a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ruberg M,Javoy-Agid F,Hirsch E,Scatton B,LHeureux R,Hauw JJ,Duyckaerts C,Gray F,Morel-Maroger A,Rascol A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined spinal cords, nerve roots, or peripheral nerves of 27 patients who died with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by immunoperoxidase techniques in paraffin-embedded tissue. Vacuolar myelopathy was seen in 8 of 26 spinal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Grafe MR,Wiley CA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple sclerosis (MS), the influx of activated T lymphocytes into the brain parenchyma leads to the subsequent damage of oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce central nervous system (CNS) myelin. We report here that interferon beta-1b (IFNbeta-1b), a drug shown to be efficacious in the treatment of patients wi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Stüve O,Dooley NP,Uhm JH,Antel JP,Francis GS,Williams G,Yong VW

更新日期：1996-12-01 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

abstract：:In this study, we preincubated the sera of 3 patients with neuropathies associated with elevated titers of IgM anti-GM1 antibodies, with increasing concentrations of intravenous Ig (IVIg) and assayed the inhibitory effect of this mixture on antibody binding to immobilized GM1 by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. P...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Malik U,Oleksowicz L,Latov N,Cardo LJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man presented with a lumbosacral polyradiculoneuropathy and developed fluctuating encephalopathy suggestive of multifocal small vessel disease. Postmortem examination demonstrated multifocal vascular occlusion by undifferentiated cells confined to the intravascular space. Extravascular spread was found o...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Krieger C,Robitaille Y,Jothy S,Elleker G

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual tumor cells remain beyond the margins of every glioblastoma (GBM) resection. Their resistance to postsurgical therapy is considered a major driving force of mortality, but their biology remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, residual tumor cells were derived via experimental biopsy of the resection m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Glas M,Rath BH,Simon M,Reinartz R,Schramme A,Trageser D,Eisenreich R,Leinhaas A,Keller M,Schildhaus HU,Garbe S,Steinfarz B,Pietsch T,Steindler DA,Schramm J,Herrlinger U,Brüstle O,Scheffler B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocarnosine, a dipeptide of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and histidine, is thought to be an inhibitory neuromodulator synthesized in subclasses of GABAergic neurons. Homocarnosine is present in human brain in greater amounts (0.4-1.0 micromol/g) than in other animals. The antiepileptic drug vigabatrin increases hu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Petroff OA,Mattson RH,Behar KL,Hyder F,Rothman DL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00