Organ-specific autoantigens induce transforming growth factor-beta mRNA expression in mononuclear cells in multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:Splice-site and missense mutations have been identified in tau associated with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17. In this study we assessed the genetic contribution of tau mutations to three patient series with non-Alzheimer's (non-AD) degenerative dementia. The groups included (1) a co...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Houlden H,Baker M,Adamson J,Grover A,Waring S,Dickson D,Lynch T,Boeve B,Petersen RC,Pickering-Brown S,Owen F,Neary D,Craufurd D,Snowden J,Mann D,Hutton M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residual tumor cells remain beyond the margins of every glioblastoma (GBM) resection. Their resistance to postsurgical therapy is considered a major driving force of mortality, but their biology remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, residual tumor cells were derived via experimental biopsy of the resection m...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Glas M,Rath BH,Simon M,Reinartz R,Schramme A,Trageser D,Eisenreich R,Leinhaas A,Keller M,Schildhaus HU,Garbe S,Steinfarz B,Pietsch T,Steindler DA,Schramm J,Herrlinger U,Brüstle O,Scheffler B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acetylaspartate (NAA) contributes to the most prominent signal in proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) of the adult human brain. We report the absence of NAA in the brain of a 3-year-old child with neurodevelopmental retardation and moderately delayed myelination. Since normal concentration of NAA in body...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Martin E,Capone A,Schneider J,Hennig J,Thiel T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection of the central nervous system (CNS) is frequently associated with intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis, but little is known about the B-cell response in the CSF of these patients. In this study, we investigated the relation...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cepok S,von Geldern G,Nolting T,Grummel V,Srivastava R,Zhou D,Hartung HP,Adams O,Arendt G,Hemmer B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pituitary dysfunction is a recognized consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that causes cognitive, psychological, and metabolic impairment. Hormone replacement offers a therapeutic opportunity. Blast TBI (bTBI) from improvised explosive devices is commonly seen in soldiers returning from recent conflict...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Baxter D,Sharp DJ,Feeney C,Papadopoulou D,Ham TE,Jilka S,Hellyer PJ,Patel MC,Bennett AN,Mistlin A,McGilloway E,Midwinter M,Goldstone AP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first molecular defect in an NADH-dehydrogenase gene presenting as isolated myopathy. The proband had lifelong exercise intolerance but no weakness. A muscle biopsy showed cytochrome c oxidase (COX)-positive ragged-red fibers (RRFs), and analysis of the mitochondrial enzymes revealed complex I deficiency...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Andreu AL,Tanji K,Bruno C,Hadjigeorgiou GM,Sue CM,Jay C,Ohnishi T,Shanske S,Bonilla E,DiMauro S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Wide interindividual variability exists in response to tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) treatment in the acute phase of ischemic stroke. We aimed to find genetic variations associated with hemorrhagic transformation (HT) and mortality rates after t-PA. We then generated a clinical-genetic model for predict...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： del Río-Espínola A,Fernández-Cadenas I,Giralt D,Quiroga A,Gutiérrez-Agulló M,Quintana M,Fernández-Álvarez P,Domingues-Montanari S,Mendióroz M,Delgado P,Turck N,Ruíz A,Ribó M,Castellanos M,Obach V,Martínez S,Freijo MM,Ji

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocarnosine, a dipeptide of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and histidine, is thought to be an inhibitory neuromodulator synthesized in subclasses of GABAergic neurons. Homocarnosine is present in human brain in greater amounts (0.4-1.0 micromol/g) than in other animals. The antiepileptic drug vigabatrin increases hu...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Petroff OA,Mattson RH,Behar KL,Hyder F,Rothman DL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are generally considered to be separate and distinct disease entities. However, a considerable amount of evidence demonstrates that these disorders share common clinical and neuropathologic features and that overlap between the two conditions is extensive. For exam...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Perl DP,Olanow CW,Calne D

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:The tyrosine kinase receptor RON and its ligand, macrophage stimulating protein (MSP), exert inhibitory effects on systemic innate immunity, but their CNS expression and impact on human neuroinflammatory diseases are unknown were RON and MSP present in human brain perivascular macrophages and microglia, but RON mRNA a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Tsutsui S,Noorbakhsh F,Sullivan A,Henderson AJ,Warren K,Toney-Earley K,Waltz SE,Power C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo demyelinating capacity of sera from 27 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and 47 other individuals was studied by intraneural injection into rat sciatic nerves. The morphological features of the nerves in cross section taken just proximal to the site of needle insertion was assessed 48 hours after...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Saida T,Saida K,Lisak RP,Brown MJ,Silberberg DH,Asbury AK

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a recognized entity for which the basis for diagnosis is descriptive in our present state of knowledge. Diagnosis rests upon pattern recognition of the clinical picture plus other features including elevated cerebrospinal fluid protein level, electrophysiological changes of marked slow...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Asbury AK

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old man with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) developed primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) after having received 21 doses of natalizumab monotherapy. PCNSL is a disease of the elderly, with the majority of patients being diagnosed in the 7th to 8th decade of life. Immunodeficiency, ia...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Schweikert A,Kremer M,Ringel F,Liebig T,Duyster J,Stüve O,Hemmer B,Berthele A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical examinations of brain tissue samples obtained from patients with Alzheimer's disease have revealed a decreased quantity of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and reduced activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), the enzyme responsible for acetylcholine formation. It has been suggested that the choline ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kanfer JN,Hattori H,Orihel D

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of recombinant human erythropoietin as a possible treatment option in Friedreich's ataxia, we performed an open-label clinical pilot study. Primary outcome measure was the change of frataxin levels at week 8 versus baseline. Twelve Friedreich's ataxia patients received 5,000 units recombinant hum...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Boesch S,Sturm B,Hering S,Goldenberg H,Poewe W,Scheiber-Mojdehkar B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported homozygous mutations in the PINK1 gene in three consanguineous families with early-onset parkinsonism (EOP) linked to the PARK6 locus. To further evaluate the pathogenic role of PINK1 in EOP and to draw genotype-phenotype correlates, we performed PINK1 mutation analysis in a cohort of Italian...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Valente EM,Salvi S,Ialongo T,Marongiu R,Elia AE,Caputo V,Romito L,Albanese A,Dallapiccola B,Bentivoglio AR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) commonly display evidence of gross cerebral atrophy, but its true incidence and pathophysiology in the general AIDS population are unknown. In this study, we measured cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) spaces in 64 consecutively autopsied patients with AIDS, compared ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Gelman BB,Guinto FC Jr

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of conduction velocity along the H reflex arc was used to study sensorimotor peripheral nerve function in diabetic patients during short- and long-term improvement of hyperglycemia. In ten type I diabetics a slight (p less than 0.05) conduction increase occurred after 6 hours of normal glycemia induced by ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Troni W,Carta Q,Cantello R,Caselle MT,Rainero I

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) is a common, disabling complication of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Preventing DCI is a key focus of neurocritical care, but interventions carry risk and cannot be applied indiscriminately. Although retrospective studies have identified continuous electroencephalographic (cEE...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rosenthal ES,Biswal S,Zafar SF,O'Connor KL,Bechek S,Shenoy AV,Boyle EJ,Shafi MM,Gilmore EJ,Foreman BP,Gaspard N,Leslie-Mazwi TM,Rosand J,Hoch DB,Ayata C,Cash SS,Cole AJ,Patel AB,Westover MB

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-year-old boy developed progressive dystonia and dementia. His symptoms had begun at age 2 1/2 years, and he had been unable to walk by 8 years. At age 10 he was severely dystonic, unable to use his hands to feed himself, and almost anarthric . He had dysphagia and urinary incontinence, and functioned at a 4-year-...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Meek D,Wolfe LS,Andermann E,Andermann F

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of BHT-3009 in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and to confirm that BHT-3009 causes immune tolerance. METHODS:BHT-3009 is a tolerizing DNA vaccine for MS, encoding full-length human myelin basic protein. Relapsing-remitting MS patients were randomized 1:1:1 into...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Garren H,Robinson WH,Krasulová E,Havrdová E,Nadj C,Selmaj K,Losy J,Nadj I,Radue EW,Kidd BA,Gianettoni J,Tersini K,Utz PJ,Valone F,Steinman L,BHT-3009 Study Group.

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a young child with tuberous sclerosis and cardiac rhabdomyoma who developed reversible heart block after being placed on carbamazepine treatment for seizures. Patients of any age with known or suspected intrinsic cardiac disease should be monitored for conduction disturbance if they are treated with carbam...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weig SG,Pollack P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain and other phantom limb (PL) sensations have been proposed to be generated in the brain and to be reflected in activation of specific neural circuits. To test this hypothesis, hypnosis was used as a cognitive tool to alternate between the sensation of PL movement and pain in 8 amputees. Brain activity was measured...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Willoch F,Rosen G,Tölle TR,Oye I,Wester HJ,Berner N,Schwaiger M,Bartenstein P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical consequences of the PMP22 point mutation, T118M, which has been previously considered to either cause an autosomal recessive form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease or be a benign polymorphism. METHODS:We analyzed patients from five separate kindreds and characterized their periph...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Shy ME,Scavina MT,Clark A,Krajewski KM,Li J,Kamholz J,Kolodny E,Szigeti K,Fischer RA,Saifi GM,Scherer SS,Lupski JR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective surgical treatment of patients with intractable complex partial seizures depends on accurate preoperative seizure focus localization. We evaluated seizure localization with interictal and immediate postictal single photon emission computed tomographic images of cerebral perfusion using technetium-99m-hexamet...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Rowe CC,Berkovic SF,Sia ST,Austin M,McKay WJ,Kalnins RM,Bladin PF

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Central nervous system pathology in multiple sclerosis includes both focal inflammatory perivascular injury and injury to superficial structures, including the subpial region of the cortex, which reportedly exhibits a gradient of damage from the surface inward. We assessed how early in the multiple sclerosis ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Fadda G,Brown RA,Magliozzi R,Aubert-Broche B,O'Mahony J,Shinohara RT,Banwell B,Marrie RA,Yeh EA,Collins DL,Arnold DL,Bar-Or A,Canadian Pediatric Demyelinating Disease Network.

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal 18F-6-fluorodopa (FD) uptake constants were measured by positron emission tomography in (1) normal cynomolgus monkeys and (2) a series of cynomolgus and rhesus monkeys that had received intracarotid infusions of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). After the animals were killed, the number and...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pate BD,Kawamata T,Yamada T,McGeer EG,Hewitt KA,Snow BJ,Ruth TJ,Calne DB

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00