Noninvasive detection of occlusive disease of the carotid siphon and middle cerebral artery.

abstract：:beta-Dystroglycan, a 43-kd transmembrane dystrophin-associated glycoprotein, plays an important role in linking dystrophin to the laminin-binding alpha-dystroglycan. alpha-/beta-Dystroglycan is encoded by a single gene on chromosome 3p21 and ubiquitously expressed in muscle and nonmuscle tissues. No known human diseas...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Salih MA,Sunada Y,Al-Nasser M,Ozo CO,Al-Turaiki MH,Akbar M,Campbell KP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A number of hypotheses have been put forward as to why humans respond to fever by seizing. The current leading hypotheses are that respiratory alkalosis produces an as yet unidentified change in neural excitability or that inflammatory mediators potentiate excitatory synaptic transmission. However, it is well...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Thomas EA,Hawkins RJ,Richards KL,Xu R,Gazina EV,Petrou S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytic necrosis is a prominent pathological feature of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) lesions and is clinically relevant. We report 5 NMO-related cases, all with longitudinally extensive lesions in the upper cervical cord, who underwent cervical cord (1) H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lower myo-inositol/creatine v...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ciccarelli O,Thomas DL,De Vita E,Wheeler-Kingshott CA,Kachramanoglou C,Kapoor R,Leary S,Matthews L,Palace J,Chard D,Miller DH,Toosy AT,Thompson AJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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 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：:Cognitive and extrapyramidal effects of cholinomimetic therapy were evaluated in 8 patients with progressive supranuclear palsy. Each was randomized to a 10-day double-blind crossover trial of physostigmine and placebo. Physostigmine treatment was associated with marginal and inconsistent changes in long-term memory, ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Litvan I,Gomez C,Atack JR,Gillespie M,Kask AM,Mouradian MM,Chase TN

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man with acne fulminans developed an acute inflammatory myositis, an association not previously reported. The condition resolved with treatment using systemic corticosteroids. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Noseworthy JH,Heffernan LP,Ross JB,Sangalang VE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand the mechanisms of skeletal muscle destruction and resistance to enzyme replacement therapy in Pompe disease, a deficiency of lysosomal acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA), in which glycogen accumulates in lysosomes primarily in cardiac and skeletal muscles. METHODS:We have analyzed compartments of the...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fukuda T,Ewan L,Bauer M,Mattaliano RJ,Zaal K,Ralston E,Plotz PH,Raben N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female patients experience substantial neuroprotection after experimental stroke compared with male patients, a finding attributed to the protective effects of gonadal hormones. This study examined the response of male- and female-derived organotypic hippocampal slices to oxidative and excitotoxic injury. Both oxygen ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Li H,Pin S,Zeng Z,Wang MM,Andreasson KA,McCullough LD

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on prior reports of free light chains of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), we quantitated free kappa and lambda chains and whole IgG concentrations using sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays (RIAs). The RIA for free kappa chains had a sensitivit...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rudick RA,Pallant A,Bidlack JM,Herndon RM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four examples of grossly mineralized lesions of the brain, causing seizures, are described; they include 2 hamartomas, a choristoma (novel associations), and an idiopathic "brain stone." Each was detectable with routine roentgenograms, and the seizures were ameliorated by surgical therapy. ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Averback P

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper toxicity contributes to neuronal death in Wilson's disease and has been speculatively linked to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and prion diseases. We examined copper-induced neuronal death with the goal of developing neuroprotective strategies. Copper catalyzed an increase in hydroxyl radical generation in sol...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sheline CT,Choi EH,Kim-Han JS,Dugan LL,Choi DW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify novel autoantibodies for neuropathic pain (NeP). METHODS:We screened autoantibodies that selectively bind to mouse unmyelinated C-fiber type dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons using tissue-based indirect immunofluorescence assays (IFA) with sera from 110 NeP patients with various inflammatory and...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fujii T,Yamasaki R,Iinuma K,Tsuchimoto D,Hayashi Y,Saitoh BY,Matsushita T,Kido MA,Aishima S,Nakanishi H,Nakabeppu Y,Kira JI

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of clinical signs and neuropathological findings of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is high in Down's syndrome (DS). In the general population, the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon 4 isoform is an important risk for AD. We studied the allelic frequencies of ApoE in 26 DS cases fulfilling clinical diagnostic cri...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： van Gool WA,Evenhuis HM,van Duijn CM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa-decarboxylase, acetylcholinesterase, sodium plus potassium stimulated adenosine triphosphatase (Na+ + K+-ATPase), and membrane-bound protein kinase were compared in the erythrocytes of patients with Huntington's disease and normal controls. All these enzymes also exist in the basal ganglia. The Na+ +K+-ATPase lev...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Butterfield DA,Oeswein JQ,Prunty ME,Hisle KC,Markesbery WR

更新日期：1978-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Nemaline myopathy (NM) is one of the most common congenital nondystrophic myopathies and is characterized by muscle weakness, often from birth. Mutations in ACTA1 are a frequent cause of NM (ie, NEM3). ACTA1 encodes alpha-actin 1, the main constituent of the sarcomeric thin filament. The mechanisms by which m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Joureau B,de Winter JM,Conijn S,Bogaards SJP,Kovacevic I,Kalganov A,Persson M,Lindqvist J,Stienen GJM,Irving TC,Ma W,Yuen M,Clarke NF,Rassier DE,Malfatti E,Romero NB,Beggs AH,Ottenheijm CAC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a population-based sample of 15,504 patients attending Canadian multiple sclerosis (MS) clinics, we have determined the frequency of conjugal MS and have estimated the recurrence risk in offspring of such matings. Twenty-three MS cases were found among 13,550 spouses of study probands for a crude conjugal rate of...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ebers GC,Yee IM,Sadovnick AD,Duquette P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 71-year-old woman presented with a short history of episodes of severe left-sided orbital and temporal pain in paroxysms lasting 60 to 90 seconds, and accompanied by ipsilateral lacrimation of the eye, rhinorrhea, and conjunctival injection. Results of clinical examination and structural imaging were normal and a cl...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： May A,Bahra A,Büchel C,Turner R,Goadsby PJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma valproate concentrations were monitored prospectively in 54 previously untreated adult patients with epilepsy. Dose and plasma concentration were highly correlated. Adverse effects were common in association with plasma levels above 100 micrograms/ml. In patients suffering tonic-clonic seizures without focal sy...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Turnbull DM,Rawlins MD,Weightman D,Chadwick DW

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old woman with primary Sjögren syndrome developed mixed cryoglobulinemia and systemic vasculitis. Subarachnoid hemorrhage occurred as a result of necrotizing anterior spinal arteritis. Although rarely seen in mixed cryoglobulinemia, central nervous system complications have recently been documented in Sjögre...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Alexander EL,Craft C,Dorsch C,Moser RL,Provost TT,Alexander GE

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：: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：: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：OBJECTIVE:Accurate identification of the ischemic penumbra, the therapeutic target in acute clinical stroke, is of critical importance to identify patients who might benefit from reperfusion therapies beyond the established time windows. Therefore, we aimed to validate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) mismatch-based pe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Zaro-Weber O,Fleischer H,Reiblich L,Schuster A,Moeller-Hartmann W,Heiss WD

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated a normal gene dose for the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). These findings leave open the possibility that elevated levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) for this protein may contribute to the pathogenesis of AD. Using Northern analysis, we compared the levels of mRNA...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Clark AW,Krekoski CA,Parhad IM,Liston D,Julien JP,Hoar DI

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During passive extension of the elbow, the triceps muscle normally shows a burst of electromyographic activity. This shortening reaction (SR) is known to be exaggerated in extrapyramidal disease states, but the effects of cerebellar disease are unknown. The SR was measured in both arms of a patient with hemiataxia, th...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Angel RW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Transient high-frequency oscillations (HFOs; 150-600Hz) in local field potentials generated by human hippocampal and parahippocampal areas have been related to both physiological and pathological processes. The cellular basis and effects of normal and abnormal forms of HFOs have been controversial. This lack ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Alvarado-Rojas C,Huberfeld G,Baulac M,Clemenceau S,Charpier S,Miles R,de la Prida LM,Le Van Quyen M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal degeneration is a major cause of permanent neurological deficit in multiple sclerosis (MS), but no current therapies for the disease are known to be effective at axonal protection. Here, we examine the ability of a sodium channel-blocking agent, flecainide, to reduce axonal degeneration in an experimental model...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bechtold DA,Kapoor R,Smith KJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00