Duodenal and gastric delivery of levodopa in parkinsonism.

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

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging is a highly sensitive method for the detection of the lesions of multiple sclerosis and renders possible the study and the evolution of early lesions. Previous reports on magnetic resonance imaging following gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) injection demonstrated that...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Katz D,Taubenberger JK,Cannella B,McFarlin DE,Raine CS,McFarland HF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a radioimmunoassay to measure a specific neurological component, the basic protein of myelin, and have used this test for assessing this component in spinal fluid. The levels of basic protein in spinal fluid correlate closely with the clinical activity of multiple sclerosis; therefore the test can be...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cohen SR,Brooks BR,Herndon RM,McKhann GM

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adipocytokines are hormones secreted from adipose tissue that possibly link adiposity and the risk of cardiovascular disease, but limited prospective data exist on plasma adipocytokines and ischemic stroke risk. We investigated associations and predictive properties of 4 plasma adipocytokines, namely resistin...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Prugger C,Luc G,Haas B,Arveiler D,Machez E,Ferrieres J,Ruidavets JB,Bingham A,Montaye M,Amouyel P,Yarnell J,Kee F,Ducimetiere P,Empana JP,PRIME Study Group.

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody against acetylcholine receptor (AChR) of human skeletal muscle was measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and found in 23 (74%) of 31 Japanese patients with generalized myasthenia gravis. In 15 patients with generalized myasthenia gravis who had not undergone thymectomy and who were not receiving ad...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kawanami S,Tsuji R,Oda K

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the activities of the enzymes responsible for the metabolism of the excitotoxin quinolinic acid, 3-hydroxyanthranilate oxygenase and quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase, in autopsied brain of 11 patients with olivopontocerebellar atrophy. In cerebellar cortex, severe Purkinje cell loss was evident bu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kish SJ,Du F,Parks DA,Robitaille Y,Ball MJ,Schut L,Hornykiewicz O,Schwarcz R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with Parkinson's disease were treated with the 8-alpha-ergoline derivative mesulergine. Participants were divided into two groups, and over a nine-week period, mesulergine dosage was increased to a maximum of either 10 or 20 mg daily. During this time levodopa-carbidopa (LD-CD) dosage was reduced and t...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pfeiffer RF,Wilken K,Glaeske C

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary haplotype (H1) of the microtubule-associated protein Tau (MAPT) gene is associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the mechanism for disease susceptibility remains unknown. We examined the promoter region of MAPT and identified single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions of 1 to 11 nucleotides. Th...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kwok JB,Teber ET,Loy C,Hallupp M,Nicholson G,Mellick GD,Buchanan DD,Silburn PA,Schofield PR

更新日期：2004-03-01 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:We tested the premise that cholinesterase inhibitor therapy should target butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), not acetylcholinesterase (AChE) alone, because both enzymes hydrolyze acetylcholine, and BuChE is increased in AD cerebral cortex. METHODS:To examine this issue in vivo, we qua...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kuhl DE,Koeppe RA,Snyder SE,Minoshima S,Frey KA,Kilbourn MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three young adults with intractable complex partial seizures were studied by electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, and electrocorticography. Interictal electroencephalographic (EEG) spikes for each patient were grouped according to their morphological characteristics and distribution across channels. Mapping...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rose DF,Sato S,Smith PD,Porter RJ,Theodore WH,Friauf W,Bonner R,Jabbari B

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Congenital amusia is a lifelong disability that prevents afflicted individuals from enjoying music as ordinary people do. The deficit is limited to music and cannot be explained by prior brain lesion, hearing loss, or any cognitive or socio-affective disturbance. Recent behavioral results suggest that this disorder is...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Peretz I,Brattico E,Tervaniemi M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nosological status of multifocal motor neuropathy remains controversial. The clinical and electrodiagnostic hallmarks suggest selective motor fiber involvement. In this study, we asked to what extent sensory nerves might be involved pathologically in multifocal motor neuropathy. Examination of sensory nerve biopsy...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Corse AM,Chaudhry V,Crawford TO,Cornblath DR,Kuncl RW,Griffin JW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with cauda equina syndrome secondary to long-standing ankylosing spondylitis are described. The roughly symmetrical neurological deficits were very slowly progressive and began long after the onset of the spondylitis, usually well after the rheumatological symptoms had stopped. Eventually every patie...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bartleson JD,Cohen MD,Harrington TM,Goldstein NP,Ginsburg WW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that the 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors atorvastatin and simvastatin enhance functional outcome and induce brain plasticity when administered after stroke to rats. With atorvastatin treatment initiated 1 day after stroke, animals exhibited significant increases in ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chen J,Zhang ZG,Li Y,Wang Y,Wang L,Jiang H,Zhang C,Lu M,Katakowski M,Feldkamp CS,Chopp M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early differential diagnosis of motor neuropathies (MN) and lower motor neuron diseases (LMND) is important, as prognosis and therapeutic approaches are different. We evaluated the diagnostic contribution of the biopsy of the motor branch of the obturator nerve and gracilis muscle in 21 consecutive patients in which, ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Riva N,Iannaccone S,Corbo M,Casellato C,Sferrazza B,Lazzerini A,Scarlato M,Cerri F,Previtali SC,Nobile-Orazio E,Comi G,Quattrini A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was made of changes in the electroencephalogram after the use of metrizamide for myelography and posterior fossa cisternography in 61 patients (62 studies). The EEG changed in 21 patients (34%); 3 of these had had previously abnormal records, and the abnormalities were accentuated on the second rec...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ropper AH,Chiappa KH,Young RR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although interictal spikes are thought to share pathophysiological mechanisms with partial-onset seizure discharges, positron emission tomographic studies of the interictal state have paradoxically shown focal hypometabolism whereas seizures produce hypermetabolism. To address this question, we performed functional ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Handforth A,Finch DM,Peters R,Tan AM,Treiman DM

更新日期：1994-06-01 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:A workgroup commissioned by the Alzheimer's Association (AA) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) recently published research criteria for preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD). We performed a preliminary assessment of these guidelines. METHODS:We employed Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jack CR Jr,Knopman DS,Weigand SD,Wiste HJ,Vemuri P,Lowe V,Kantarci K,Gunter JL,Senjem ML,Ivnik RJ,Roberts RO,Rocca WA,Boeve BF,Petersen RC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of a variety of finger and color confrontation tests in identifying chiasmal and optic nerve visual field defects was assessed in patients whose field defects had been established beforehand by a conventional achromatic kinetic technique on the Goldmann perimeter. Kinetic and static finger confrontation m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Trobe JD,Acosta PC,Krischer JP,Trick GL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A persistent vegetative state (severe dementia) developed in a 30-year-old man following hypoglycemic coma. Despite the poor clinical outcome, sensory evoked response recovered between 6 and 34 months after the insult. The cerebral blood flow level at rest after 34 months was slightly above the normal range. This find...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Agardh CD,Rosén I,Ryding E

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine changes in the response properties of meningeal nociceptors that might lead to migraine pain and examine endogenous processes that could play a role in mediating them using a clinically relevant model of migraine triggering, namely infusion of the nitric oxide (NO) donor nitroglycerin (NTG). METHO...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Zhang X,Kainz V,Zhao J,Strassman AM,Levy D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL) is a neurodegenerative disease in which autofluorescent "curvilinear" storage bodies accumulate in tissues from affected patients. Recently, the LINCL gene (CLN2) has been found to code for a pepstatin-insensitive lysosomal protease whose activity is defici...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Berry-Kravis E,Sleat DE,Sohar I,Meyer P,Donnelly R,Lobel P

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) of brain glucose utilization is highly sensitive in detecting focal cortical abnormalities in patients with infantile spasms even when the computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are normal. Of 110 infants with spasms evaluated for potential surgical inte...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Chugani HT,Da Silva E,Chugani DC

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that variability in SNCA Rep1, a polymorphic dinucleotide microsatellite in the promoter region of the gene encoding α-synuclein, modifies the association between head injury and Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. METHODS:Participants in the Farming and Movement Evaluation (FAME) and the S...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Goldman SM,Kamel F,Ross GW,Jewell SA,Bhudhikanok GS,Umbach D,Marras C,Hauser RA,Jankovic J,Factor SA,Bressman S,Lyons KE,Meng C,Korell M,Roucoux DF,Hoppin JA,Sandler DP,Langston JW,Tanner CM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00