Gene delivery of neurturin to putamen and substantia nigra in Parkinson disease: A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial.

abstract：:The disappearance rates from plasma of intravenously administered levo-norepinephrine (l-NE), dextro-norepinephrine (d-NE), and isoproterenol (ISO) were measured in normal subjects and in patients with either multiple-system atrophy (MSA) or idiopathic orthostatic hypotension (IOH). The two isomers, l-NE and d-NE, wer...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Polinsky RJ,Goldstein DS,Brown RT,Keiser HR,Kopin IJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated increased immunoreactivity of the endogenous opioid peptide beta-endorphin in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of infants under 2 years of age with apnea. To assess the role of endogenous opioids in the pathogenesis of apnea in children, the effect of oral treatment with the opioid antagon...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Myer EC,Morris DL,Brase DA,Dewey WL,Zimmerman AW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by patchy accumulations of inflammatory cells combined with demyelination. There are mononuclear cells in blood and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS that produce interferon-gamma and interleukin-4 in response to myelin basic protein (MBP) and proteolipid protein (PLP). H...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Link J,Fredrikson S,Söderström M,Olsson T,Höjeberg B,Ljungdahl A,Link H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cervical nerves may play a significant role in primary headache disorders. We reviewed the patterns of pain evoked by stimulation of the first 3 cervical nerves (C1-C3) in 10 patients with chronic occipital pain, 6 of whom also had migraine. Stimulation at the C1 level evoked periorbital and frontal pain in 6 of 6...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Johnston MM,Jordan SE,Charles AC

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：: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：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a powerful tool for assessing disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS), and its role as a surrogate marker for monitoring treatment efficacy is now becoming established. The most commonly used MRI parameters in treatment trials are (1) monthly gadolinium-enhanced MRI, with ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Molyneux PD,Filippi M,Barkhof F,Gasperini C,Yousry TA,Truyen L,Lai HM,Rocca MA,Moseley IF,Miller DH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in muscle and blood from 72 patients with mitochondrial myopathy showed that 30 had major deletions of a variable proportion of muscle mtDNA. All of these 30 patients presented with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and limb weakness, and 8 had the additional features of the Ke...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Holt IJ,Harding AE,Cooper JM,Schapira AH,Toscano A,Clark JB,Morgan-Hughes JA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on earlier findings that the presence of word comprehension impairment (a deficit in the meaning of words, or lexical semantics) in acute stroke was strongly associated with the presence of hypoperfusion or infarct in Wernicke's area, we tested the hypothesis that the severity of word comprehension impairment wa...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hillis AE,Wityk RJ,Tuffiash E,Beauchamp NJ,Jacobs MA,Barker PB,Selnes OA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical seizure manifestations, physical examination, radiological studies, neuropsychological tests, and scalp and depth electroencephalographic (EEG) studies were done to localize seizure foci in 32 patients, 23 of whom have undergone surgery with more than one year of follow-up. Of 16 patients with unlocalized sca...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Spencer SS,Spencer DD,Williamson PD,Mattson RH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 28-year-old man with long-standing intractable complex partial and secondary generalized seizures, whose magnetic resonance imaging scans 4 years apart documented progressive decrease in the left hippocampal volume. Left anterior temporal lobectomy with amygdalohippocampectomy rendered the patient seizu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： O'Brien TJ,So EL,Meyer FB,Parisi JE,Jack CR

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current functional model of the basal ganglia suggests that dyskinesia results from abnormally low activity at the output of the system. This view appears incomplete. The recent literature suggests other factors. Thus, dyskinesia may result from disturbance of surround inhibition: a physiologic mechanism to select...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Filion M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence and titer of total, free, and bound cerebrospinal fluid anti-myelin basic protein (MBP) antibodies as well as free/bound ratios were determined in four groups of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and three groups of controls. All patients with clinically active MS have elevated levels of total anti-MBP,...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Warren KG,Catz I

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganaxolone (3alpha-hydroxy-3beta-methyl-5alpha-pregnan-20-one) is a novel neurosteroid which has anticonvulsant properties in a number of seizure models as well as the ability to enhance function of the gamma-aminobutyric acid-A (GABA(A)) receptor complex via a neurosteroid binding site. The object of these experiment...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Snead OC 3rd

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed nigrostriatal dopaminergic function in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients undergoing a double-blind, placebo-controlled surgical trial of embryonic dopamine cell implantation. Forty PD patients underwent positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with [18F]fluorodopa (FDOPA) prior to randomization to transp...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nakamura T,Dhawan V,Chaly T,Fukuda M,Ma Y,Breeze R,Greene P,Fahn S,Freed C,Eidelberg D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lacunar strokes are a leading cause of cognitive impairment and vascular dementia. However, adequate characterization of cognitive impairment is lacking. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and characterize the neuropsychological impairment in lacunar stroke patients. METHODS:All English-spe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jacova C,Pearce LA,Costello R,McClure LA,Holliday SL,Hart RG,Benavente OR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor neuron disease caused by dysfunction of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene. Human SMN gene is present in duplicated copies: SMN1 and SMN2. More than 95% of patients with SMA lack a functional SMN1 but retain at least one copy of SMN2. Unlike SMN1, SMN2 is primarily transcribe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Grzeschik SM,Ganta M,Prior TW,Heavlin WD,Wang CH

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh brain weight, gestational age, body weight, sex, and race were collected from autopsy records of 782 newborns over a 10-year period. The brain weight of the mature newborn does not differ between males and females or between white and black infants. For the premature, however, brain weight is heavier in white ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ho KC,Roessmann U,Hause L,Monroe G

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Four hundred five children from the Helsinki area who were 1 month to 16 years old were treated for acute encephalitis at the Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, from January 1968 through December 1987. Encephalitis occurred most commonly in children 1 to 1.9 years of age, among whom the incidence was 16.7 pe...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Koskiniemi M,Rautonen J,Lehtokoski-Lehtiniemi E,Vaheri A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive astrocytosis in cortical tubers in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) suggests that astrocytes may be important for epileptogenesis in TSC. We previously demonstrated that astrocyte-specific Tsc1 gene inactivation in mice (Tsc1 cKO mice) results in progressive epilepsy. Here, we report that glutamate transport...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wong M,Ess KC,Uhlmann EJ,Jansen LA,Li W,Crino PB,Mennerick S,Yamada KA,Gutmann DH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with Parkinson's disease were followed for 10 to 72 months after human embryonic mesencephalic tissue from four to seven donors was grafted unilaterally into the putamen (4 patients) or putamen plus caudate (2 patients). After 8 to 12 months, positron emission tomography showed a 68% increase of 6-L-[18F]...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wenning GK,Odin P,Morrish P,Rehncrona S,Widner H,Brundin P,Rothwell JC,Brown R,Gustavii B,Hagell P,Jahanshahi M,Sawle G,Björklund A,Brooks DJ,Marsden CD,Quinn NP,Lindvall O

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides preliminary evidence that computer-derived parameters of interictal spike waveforms can be used to assess seizure hazard in a quantitative manner. Thirteen children with spike foci and simple or complex partial seizures were studied before and during treatment with carbamazepine or phenobarbital; s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Frost JD Jr,Kellaway P,Hrachovy RA,Glaze DG,Mizrahi EM

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile spasms are generalized seizures specific to early infancy, and are believed to result from complex cortical-subcortical interactions during a critical period of development. We used positron emission tomography (PET) to determine local cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (1CMRG1c) in 44 infants with spasms,...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chugani HT,Shewmon DA,Sankar R,Chen BC,Phelps ME

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive joint position sense was tested in 10 subjects after unilateral total hip replacement surgery (which included capsulectomy). Varied initial limb position, amplitude, and velocity of movement were used. The unoperated side was used as a control. Statistically barely significant errors (p less than 0.025) on the...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Karanjia PN,Ferguson JH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Though effective anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) therapies are now available, they have variable penetration into the brain. We therefore aimed to assess changes over calendar time in the risk for HIV-associated dementia (HIV-D), and factors associated with HIV-D risk. METHODS:Using Concerted Action ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bhaskaran K,Mussini C,Antinori A,Walker AS,Dorrucci M,Sabin C,Phillips A,Porter K,CASCADE Collaboration.

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomy of the recently discovered diencephalospinal dopaminergic system is summarized and its possible role in physiological and pathological processes suggested. The cell bodies of origin of this system are localized periventricularly in the dorsal hypothalamus and caudal thalamus, and the terminal innervations ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lindvall O,Björklund A,Skagerberg G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term effects of brief but repetitive febrile seizures (FS) on memory have not been as thoroughly investigated as the impact of single and prolonged seizure in the developing brain. Using a heated-air FS paradigm, we subjected male rat pups to one, three, or nine episodes of brief FS on days 10 to 12 postpartu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chang YC,Huang AM,Kuo YM,Wang ST,Chang YY,Huang CC

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:The role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in the pathogenesis of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) has yet to be characterized. Several clinical features of the disease imply that nuclear genes might also be involved in its expression. We have confirmed the presence of a severe NADH:coenzyme Q1 reductas...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cock HR,Tabrizi SJ,Cooper JM,Schapira AH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00