Hyperexcitability of motor and sensory neurons in neuromyotonia.

abstract：:Using three adjustments, we have revised a 1976 prevalence count for multiple sclerosis in the United States. The adjustments were made to data from a US national survey; they used 1990 population projections from the US Bureau of the Census, and results of investigations conducted in Weld and Larimer Countries, Color...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Anderson DW,Ellenberg JH,Leventhal CM,Reingold SC,Rodriguez M,Silberberg DH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic demyelination can result in axonopathy and is associated with human neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) in adults and cerebral palsy in infants. In these disorders, myelin regeneration is inhibited by impaired differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitors into myelin-producing oli...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fancy SP,Glasgow SM,Finley M,Rowitch DH,Deneen B

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the associations of blood biomarkers of carbohydrate, lipid, and apolipoprotein metabolisms with the future risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS:In the Apolipoprotein-related MOrtality RISk study, we enrolled 636,132 men and women during 1985-1996 in Stockholm, Sweden, with measurem...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mariosa D,Hammar N,Malmström H,Ingre C,Jungner I,Ye W,Fang F,Walldius G

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of sudden death in patients with epilepsy remains unclear. Previous studies in a well-established sheep model of status epilepticus showed that more than one-third of the unsedated animals died within 5 minutes of seizure onset due to hypoventilation. The relative contributions of airway obstruction and c...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Johnston SC,Siedenberg R,Min JK,Jerome EH,Laxer KD

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which iron enters the central nervous system from the blood is not well understood. Iron in blood plasma is totally bound to transferrin (Tf), a major plasma glycoprotein. Tf receptors are present on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) endothelium. It is not known whether iron separates from Tf during its p...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Roberts R,Sandra A,Siek GC,Lucas JJ,Fine RE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical and neuropathological findings in an immunocompetent 19-year-old patient with a fatal acute Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) meningoencephalitis and a lymphoma-like B-lymphocyte response. Our results suggest that an immunotoxic rather than direct viral neuronal invasion mediates brain damage in EBV ence...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schellinger PD,Sommer C,Leithäuser F,Schwab S,Storch-Hagenlocher B,Hacke W,Kiessling M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a population-based clinical and molecular genetic study of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) in the northeast of England. The minimum point prevalence of SCA6 was 1.59 in 100,000 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04-2.14), and the number of individuals who either had SCA6 or are at risk of developing SC...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Craig K,Keers SM,Archibald K,Curtis A,Chinnery PF

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The cortex of patients with cortical dysplasia contains several abnormal cell types. Among the dysplastic cells, cytomegalic neurons are known to be electrically hyperactive and may contribute to epileptic activity. In this study, we sought to identify molecular markers of cytomegalic neurons in focal or hemi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ljungberg MC,Bhattacharjee MB,Lu Y,Armstrong DL,Yoshor D,Swann JW,Sheldon M,D'Arcangelo G

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric vestibular testing induced nystagmus in a patient with an isoelectric electroencephalogram after cardiopulmonary arrest. This has been demonstrated previously in patients in a chronic persistent vegetative state with intact brainstem reflexes, but never in a patient with an isoelectric electroencephalogram. An...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nayyar M,Strobos RJ,Singh BM,Brown-Wagner M,Pucillo A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three patients with epidural spinal cord compression, from metastatic cancer were treated with high-dose adrenocorticosteroids and a new radiation fractionation protocol. Only those patients were included who had complete or almost complete block on myelography and who had not received prior radiation therapy t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Greenberg HS,Kim JH,Posner JB

更新日期：1980-10-01 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：:Direct DNA tests for mutations in neurogenetic disorders are establishing a new era in diagnostic neurology. These highly accurate and specific tests will greatly improve diagnosis and genetic counseling, lead to more accurate assessment of prognosis, and reduce the cost of diagnostic evaluations. However, the use and...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bird TD,Bennett RL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the pathophysiology of hypokalemic paralysis, as it occurs in barium poisoning, chronic potassium deficiency, and thyrotoxicosis, suggests that these disorders may have a similar mechanism. An increased ratio of muscle sodium permeability to potassium permeability reduces the ionic diffusion potential, whi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Layzer RB

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the favorable claims of Cook and others, an open trial of chronic dorsal column stimulation was undertaken in 9 patients who had moderately advanced multiple sclerosis (MS) but were still ambulatory. No objective improvement was noted by either author during the postoperative observation period of 6 to 37 m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rosen JA,Barsoum AH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Determining if traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD). This constitutes a research priority for the Veterans Administration (VA) with implications for screening policy and prevention. METHODS:Population-based, matched case-control ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： White DL,Kunik ME,Yu H,Lin HL,Richardson PA,Moore S,Sarwar AI,Marsh L,Jorge RE

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pilot Stroke Data Bank obtained information on 94 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. These data were used to identify factors predictive of 30-day outcome from among 85 demographic, historical, clinical, and laboratory variables generally available to clinicians on the day of admission. The 9 univariate facto...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tuhrim S,Dambrosia JM,Price TR,Mohr JP,Wolf PA,Heyman A,Kase CS

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed whether or not levodopa induces dyskinesias in normal (ie, unlesioned) squirrel monkeys. All six animals treated twice daily with levodopa (15 mg/kg with carbidopa by oral gavage) for two weeks developed choreoathetoid dyskinesias, whereas none of the vehicle-treated animals displayed any abnormal ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Togasaki DM,Tan L,Protell P,Di Monte DA,Quik M,Langston JW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter glutamate was implicated in the pathogenesis of a variety of chronic degenerative neurological diseases in humans and animals. This report describes abnormalities in excitatory amino acids in the central nervous system of 18 patients with amyotrophic lateral scleros...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rothstein JD,Tsai G,Kuncl RW,Clawson L,Cornblath DR,Drachman DB,Pestronk A,Stauch BL,Coyle JT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexander's law refers to the phenomenon in which the spontaneous nystagmus of a patient with a vestibular lesion is more intense when the patient looks in the quick-phase than in the slow-phase direction. Alexander's law was investigated in normal subjects as well as patients with vestibular lesions. During sinusoida...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Robinson DA,Zee DS,Hain TC,Holmes A,Rosenberg LF

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although electrophysiologic dysfunction of the subthalamic nucleus is putative, deep brain stimulation of this structure has recently been reported to improve obsessions and compulsions. In Parkinson disease, sensorimotor subthalamic neurons display high-frequency burst firing, which is considered as an elect...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Piallat B,Polosan M,Fraix V,Goetz L,David O,Fenoy A,Torres N,Quesada JL,Seigneuret E,Pollak P,Krack P,Bougerol T,Benabid AL,Chabardès S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of 14-3-3 protein by Western immunoblot is a sensitive and specific cerebrospinal fluid marker of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). We developed a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that reliably detects 14-3-3 in cerebrospinal fluid. In a prospective study of 147 cerebrospinal fluid s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kenney K,Brechtel C,Takahashi H,Kurohara K,Anderson P,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with Parkinson's disease and in normal subjects, the influence of tremor on repetitive voluntary movement was investigated in the index finger by comparing frequency of isometric force tremor with frequency of voluntary alternating isometric contractions. Tremor frequency, measured over the range from 0 to...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Logigian E,Hefter H,Reiners K,Freund HJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the impact of cerebral amyloid angiopathy on tissue plasminogen activator-induced cerebral hemorrhages in APP23 transgenic mice. Results show that the intravenous administration of tissue plasminogen activator in APP23 mice leads to an increase in cerebral amyloid angiopathy-associated microhemorrhages and ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Winkler DT,Biedermann L,Tolnay M,Allegrini PR,Staufenbiel M,Wiessner C,Jucker M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the histopathological alterations of microglia in the brains of patients with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) caused by mutations of the gene encoding the colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R). METHODS:We examined 5 autopsied brains and 1 biopsy specimen from a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tada M,Konno T,Tada M,Tezuka T,Miura T,Mezaki N,Okazaki K,Arakawa M,Itoh K,Yamamoto T,Yokoo H,Yoshikura N,Ishihara K,Horie M,Takebayashi H,Toyoshima Y,Naito M,Onodera O,Nishizawa M,Takahashi H,Ikeuchi T,Kakita A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinsonism occurs in approximately 35 to 40% of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) even with little or no neuronal degeneration in the substantia nigra, which in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) results in the severe loss of striatal dopamine transporter sites. It is not known if there is a loss of striatal d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Murray AM,Weihmueller FB,Marshall JF,Hurtig HI,Gottleib GL,Joyce JN

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate whether cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2 ), an important isoform of PLA2 that mediates the release of arachidonic acid, plays a role in the pathogenesis of spinal cord injury (SCI). METHODS:A combination of molecular, histological, immunohistochemical, and beha...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Liu NK,Deng LX,Zhang YP,Lu QB,Wang XF,Hu JG,Oakes E,Bonventre JV,Shields CB,Xu XM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured serially the blood pressure of 7 normal controls and 11 Type I insulin-dependent and 6 Type II non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients during sleep. All subjects underwent 2 or 3 nights of monitoring during which blood pressure was measured with an arteriosonde, a Doppler-type system with a cuff that autom...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Guilleminault C,Mondini S,Hayes B

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiphysin-IgG was identified in 71 patients among 120,000 evaluated serologically for paraneoplastic autoantibodies. Clinical information was available for 63 patients. Cancer was detected in 50 (mostly limited), proven histologically in 46, and was imaged intrathoracically in 4 patients (lung, small-cell [27] and n...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pittock SJ,Lucchinetti CF,Parisi JE,Benarroch EE,Mokri B,Stephan CL,Kim KK,Kilimann MW,Lennon VA

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:The etiopathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been elusive. Recently, several lines of evidence have converged to suggest that defects in the ubiquitin-proteasome system and proteolytic stress underlie nigral pathology in both familial and sporadic forms of the illness. In support of this concept, mutations in ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： McNaught KS,Olanow CW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00