Imaging of human brain lesions with an omega 3 site radioligand.

abstract：:Eight patients with recent cerebral hemispheric infarction were studied with positron emission tomography and the oxygen-15 steady-state inhalation and [18F]deoxyglucose techniques to obtain values of regional cerebral blood flow, oxygen consumption, and glucose metabolism. The Sokoloff equation, used to calculate glu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wise RJ,Rhodes CG,Gibbs JM,Hatazawa J,Palmer T,Frackowiak RS,Jones T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal particulate preparations, both from rats with lesion-induced striatal dopamine (DA) loss and from some striatal dopamine (DA) loss and from some patients with Parkinson's disease, exhibit increased 3H-neuroleptic binding, which is interpreted to be the mechanism of denervation-induced behavioral supersensitiv...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bennett JP Jr,Wooten GF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old man presented with a six-year history of gradually progressive exertional dyspnea. His complaint was attributed to increasing age, but evaluation finally led to a diagnosis of diaphragmatic paralysis. Neurological examination disclosed only minimal evidence of weakness of limb muscles. Electromyographic ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sivak ED,Salanga VD,Wilbourn AJ,Mitsumoto H,Golish J

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate reports of abnormal levels of free amino acids (AA) in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), we studied serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine AA in 12 patients with ALS and 12 controls matched for age, sex, and severity of disability. ALS patients had statistically significant elevations in se...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Patten BM,Harati Y,Acosta L,Jung SS,Felmus MT

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) polyamine determinations in childhood medulloblastoma has been suggested. We performed 72 CSF polyamine determinations in 35 children with primary brain tumors. Spermine values were normal and spermidine values were inconsistently elevated. CSF putrescine values, however...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Phillips PC,Kremzner LT,De Vivo DC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the integrity of the corticospinal tract classified by diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) can predict the motor outcome in 25 patients with pontine infarct. DTTs were obtained in the early stage of stroke (5-30 days) and were classified into two groups (type A: the integrity of corticospinal t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jang SH,Bai D,Son SM,Lee J,Kim DS,Sakong J,Kim DG,Yang DS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:What mechanisms underlie the loss and recovery of consciousness after severe brain injury? We sought to establish, in the largest cohort of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) to date, the link between gold standard clinical measures of awareness and wakefulness, and specific patterns of local brai...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Lutkenhoff ES,Chiang J,Tshibanda L,Kamau E,Kirsch M,Pickard JD,Laureys S,Owen AM,Monti MM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two family members with hereditary pressure-sensitive neuropathy are reported. One patient presented atypically with acute brachial plexus neuropathy following transaxillary removal of the first rib. Electrophysiological studies showed slowing of motor nerve conduction in clinically affected and unaffected nerves. In ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bosch EP,Chui HC,Martin MA,Cancilla PA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent controlled clinical trial suggested a role for amantadine as a treatment for pathological gambling in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Analyzing data from a large cross-sectional study of impulse control disorders (ICDs) in PD, amantadine use (n = 728), vs no amantadine use (n = 2,357), was positively as...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weintraub D,Sohr M,Potenza MN,Siderowf AD,Stacy M,Voon V,Whetteckey J,Wunderlich GR,Lang AE

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:We studied the in vitro electrical activity of rat neostriatal neurons following chronic neuroleptic treatment. In haloperidol-treated rats, unlike naive animals, activation of neostriatal D2 dopamine receptors induced a potent presynaptic inhibition of glutamate-mediated excitatory synaptic potentials. Haloperidol tr...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Calabresi P,De Murtas M,Mercuri NB,Bernardi G

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:In multiple sclerosis (MS), cerebral gray matter (GM) atrophy correlates more strongly than white matter (WM) atrophy with disability. The corresponding relationships in the spinal cord (SC) are unknown due to technical limitations in assessing SC GM atrophy. Using phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schlaeger R,Papinutto N,Panara V,Bevan C,Lobach IV,Bucci M,Caverzasi E,Gelfand JM,Green AJ,Jordan KM,Stern WA,von Büdingen HC,Waubant E,Zhu AH,Goodin DS,Cree BA,Hauser SL,Henry RG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary and secondary conditions leading to thiamine deficiency have overlapping features in children, presenting with acute episodes of encephalopathy, bilateral symmetric brain lesions, and high excretion of organic acids that are specific of thiamine-dependent mitochondrial enzymes, mainly lactate, alpha-ketoglutar...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ortigoza-Escobar JD,Alfadhel M,Molero-Luis M,Darin N,Spiegel R,de Coo IF,Gerards M,Taylor RW,Artuch R,Nashabat M,Rodríguez-Pombo P,Tabarki B,Pérez-Dueñas B,Thiamine Deficiency Study Group.

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three entities--multiple sclerosis, tropical spastic paraparesis, and human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy (HAM)--may represent manifestations of the same disease, with HTLV-I-like virus playing a role in their etiology. Tests for the presence of antibodies reacting with either HTLV-I-like ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Koprowski H,DeFreitas E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene have been found to associate with pathologic deposition of the beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in neuritic plaques or in the walls of cerebral vessels. We report a mutation at a novel site in APP in a three-generation Iowa family with autosomal dominant dement...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Grabowski TJ,Cho HS,Vonsattel JP,Rebeck GW,Greenberg SM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) frequently have selective depletion of the CD45R+CD4+ T-cell subset during active phases of disease. To study the relationship between changes in this subset and the onset of objective clinical exacerbations of disease, a longitudinal study was undertaken. Two CD4+ T-cell subsets ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rose LM,Ginsberg AH,Rothstein TL,Ledbetter JA,Clark EA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in neuroimaging techniques, particularly high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have proved invaluable in identifying structural brain lesions in patients with epilepsy. The assumption that such focal lesions invariably predict the site of seizure origin may not be correct, however. We report a ser...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Holmes MD,Wilensky AJ,Ojemann GA,Ojemann LM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unexpected sudden death is a common event in otherwise healthy epileptics, though its etiology has remained unclear. Many authors have suggested cardiac arrhythmias as the cause, and limited data in humans and animal studies have supported this. However, autopsy series in humans have shown pulmonary edema, a phenomeno...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Johnston SC,Horn JK,Valente J,Simon RP

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies are inherited neuromuscular disorders caused by a length-dependent neurodegeneration of peripheral nerves. More than 900 mutations in 60 different genes are causative of the neuropathy. Despite significant progress in therapeutic strategies, the disease remains incurable. The inc...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bouhy D,Timmerman V

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging of cerebrovascular beta-amyloid (cerebral amyloid angiopathy) is complicated by the nearly universal overlap of this pathology with Alzheimer's pathology. We performed positron emission tomographic imaging with Pittsburgh Compound B on 42-year-old man with early manifestations of Iowa-type hereditary cerebral ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Greenberg SM,Grabowski T,Gurol ME,Skehan ME,Nandigam RN,Becker JA,Garcia-Alloza M,Prada C,Frosch MP,Rosand J,Viswanathan A,Smith EE,Johnson KA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraneural injection of antisera from rabbits with high antigalactocerebroside antibody levels into rat sciatic nerve produced acute nerve conduction block. This was first apparent in some motor axons between 30 and 60 minutes after injection and progressed to completion within 2 to 4 hours. Concurrent morphological ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Sumner AJ,Saida K,Saida T,Silberberg DH,Asbury AK

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual (VEP), brainstem auditory (BAEP), and somatosensory (SEP) evoked potential tests were performed in 45 patients representing ten types of inherited disorders in which ataxia was the most prominent symptom. Comparable VEP abnormalities were present among all types of patients. Normal BAEP tests were recorded in m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nuwer MR,Perlman SL,Packwood JW,Kark RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the intrinsic mechanical properties and protein content of single skinned muscle fibers obtained from patients who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy. To check for possible nonspecific changes caused by muscle disease per se, we also studied the properties of muscle fibers obtained from patients exhibiting se...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Horowits R,Dalakas MC,Podolsky RJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy often display cognitive comorbidity with recurrent seizures. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying the impairment of neuronal information processing remain poorly understood in temporal lobe epilepsy. Within the hippocampal formation neuronal networks undergo major r...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Artinian J,Peret A,Mircheva Y,Marti G,Crépel V

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:An in vitro preparation has been developed in which epileptogenesis in mammalian central nervous system tissue may be studied. Addition of sodium penicillin to the medium bathing slices of guinea pig hippocampus induced epileptiform activity similar to that seen in hippocampal penicillin foci in vivo. Epileptiform eve...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schwartzkroin PA,Prince DA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method of cortical stimulation for localizing functional areas of brain before operation for primary brain tumors that was carried out in 14 patients. The method is unique in that the stimulation is done over several days using chronically indwelling subdural electrode arrays. In addition to cortical sti...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Morris HH 3rd,Lüders H,Hahn JF,Lesser RP,Dinner DS,Estes ML

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty children with marked neurological abnormality manifested by moderate or severe motor disability and severe mental retardation were compared with a large control population with respect to prospectively ascertained perinatal characteristics. None of 60 prenatal factors distinguished the affected group from contro...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nelson KB,Broman SH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the expression of Fas antigen and Bcl-2 protein in thymic tissue surgically resected from 10 patients with myasthenia gravis, using immunocytochemical techniques. Histologically, thymic tissues from 7 myasthenia gravis patients showed hyperplasia, while 3 other patients had thymomas. In hyperplastic thymic...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Onodera J,Nakamura S,Nagano I,tobita M,Yoshioka M,Takeda A,Oouchi M,Itoyama Y

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00