Abstract:
:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) afflicting approximately 250,000 individuals in the United States. This inflammatory disease has variable clinical manifestations, ranging from a relapsing-remitting course to a chronic progressive disease. Approximately one third of MS patients have chronic progressive disease often leading to severe impairment of mobility, paralysis, poor vision, and disturbances of bladder and bowel function. Although the etiology and pathogenesis remain unknown, accumulating evidence supports the hypothesis that exposure to an as-yet-unidentified infectious agent(s) triggers an aberrant immune response against self nervous tissue in genetically susceptible individuals. The tenfold higher concordance rate for MS in monozygotic twins compared to dizygotic twins, the increased incidence of MS in women compared to men (2:1), and the familial and racial occurrence of MS provide strong evidence that genetic factors influence susceptibility to MS. The major predisposing genes in MS are the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II molecules, DR15 and DQw6, molecularly defined as HLA-DRB1, 1501-DQA1 0102-DQB1 0602. In certain ethnic groups, MS susceptibility is more strongly associated with other DR molecules. Environmental factors are also believed to play a role, as suggested by the unique worldwide prevalence, migration effects, and epidemiological studies. Increased serum and cerebrospinal fluid antibody titers to numerous viruses have been reported; however, there have been no confirmed studies detecting viral RNA or antigen in MS brain tissue. At the present time, no known treatment can significantly alter the progression of MS. Based on the postulate that MS is an autoimmune disease associated with abnormalities in immunoregulation, a number of different immunosuppressive and immunomodulating agents have been tested as therapeutic modalities. In this article, we review the circumstantial evidence suggesting that immune system abnormalities are associated with the disease process, and provide an update on current therapies used in MS.
journal_name
Ann Neuroljournal_title
Annals of neurologyauthors
Bansil S,Cook SD,Rohowsky-Kochan Cdoi
10.1002/ana.410370710subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-05-01 00:00:00pages
S87-101eissn
0364-5134issn
1531-8249journal_volume
37 Suppl 1pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Systems for automatic assessment of cutaneous touch-pressure, vibratory, and thermal sensation have been developed. These systems use stimuli which are quantified and reproducible, a two-alternative forced-choice technique, and programmed steps to test, score, and report. If normal responses from series of healthy per...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410040605
更新日期:1978-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Neuromuscular disorders reported in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection include several forms of peripheral neuropathy and polymyositis. We report 11 patients with HIV-associated myopathy. Five patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 2 with AIDS-related complex, and 4 otherwi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410240114
更新日期:1988-07-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.25479
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::A sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was employed to measure interleukin-2 (IL-2) levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and sera from 30 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 8 patients with other neurological diseases. Detectable levels of IL-2 were found in 6 sera and 9 CSF samples of 21 patients w...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410240618
更新日期:1988-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The dopamine transporter (DAT) may be the single most important determinant of extracellular dopamine concentrations. The importance of DAT in Parkinson's disease (PD) in which DAT may be reduced by 50 to 70% is unclear. We have examined the effects of methylphenidate (MPD), an inhibitor of DAT, administered alone or ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1002/ana.20089
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Seven patients with postfacial palsy contracture and mass contractions were investigated electrophysiologically. In 3 patients the early blink reflex showed an unusually high amplitude, which can be attributed to enhanced excitability of facial motor neurons. In 5 patients the early blink reflex had acquired a crossed...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410020114
更新日期:1977-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mitochondrial iron accumulation is thought to underlie the pathophysiology of Friedreich ataxia and may occur at the expense of cytosolic iron. Decreases in cytosolic iron induce expression of the transferrin receptor, some of which is released into the serum. Here, we demonstrate that serum transferrin receptor conce...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Caloric vestibular testing induced nystagmus in a patient with an isoelectric electroencephalogram after cardiopulmonary arrest. This has been demonstrated previously in patients in a chronic persistent vegetative state with intact brainstem reflexes, but never in a patient with an isoelectric electroencephalogram. An...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410210118
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To identify brain regions, cell types, or both that generate abnormal electrical discharge in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Here we examined excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents in human tissue samples obtained from a TSC patient with no discernible cortical tubers and acute neocortical brain slice...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.21058
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410180109
更新日期:1985-07-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.24241
更新日期:2014-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We investigated the relationship between cerebral activity (measured with positron emission tomography) and word rate in normal subjects and aphasic patients listening to monosyllabic words at rates up to those encountered in normal speech. By measuring the slope of the regression of the individual activity-word rate ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.10181
更新日期:2002-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mutations of the ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein 1 gene (GDAP1) cause autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4A. We report four additional families with recessive mutations (487C-->T, Q163X; 359G-->A, R120Q) of GDAP1; Q163X occurred in three unrelated Hispanic families that had the...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.10505
更新日期:2003-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe a family of 9 affected individuals in three generations with nocturnal oro-facio-brachial partial seizures, secondarily generalized partial seizures, and centro-temporal epileptiform discharges, associated with oral and speech dyspraxia and cognitive impairment. The speech disorder was prominent, but diffe...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410380412
更新日期:1995-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report thirty-three patients with alternating skew deviation on lateral gaze. The right eye was hypertropic in right gaze, and the left eye was hypertropic in left gaze. Most patients had associated downbeat nystagmus and ataxia and were diagnosed as having lesions of the cerebellar pathways or the cervicomedullary...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410230213
更新日期:1988-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two patients with biopsy-proved progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) were treated with near-maximal doses of adenine arabinoside (Ara-A), 18.6 and 20 mg per kilogram of body weight per day for 14 days. In both patients, clinical progression of the disease was correlated with an increase in the size of low-...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410010509
更新日期:1977-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A 65-year-old woman with subacute global deterioration of neurological function had bilateral occlusion of the internal carotid arteries demonstrated by angiography. Postmortem examination showed isolated giant cell arteritis involving the carotid siphon bilaterally. ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410150216
更新日期:1984-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) has been associated with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL), a malignancy of mature CD4-positive lymphocytes, and with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), a demyelinating neurological syndrome. This article describes the clinical and pathological features of ATL and reviews...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1002/ana.410230739
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report the clinical features of 12 patients with drop attacks associated with Meniere's syndrome. Each described a sensation of being pushed, thrown, or knocked to the ground or a sudden illusion of movement of the environment that led to a fall. These episodes were not accompanied by symptoms of their typical atta...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410280314
更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Case series with (11)C-PK11195 and positron emission tomography (PET) in stroke patients suggest that activated microglia may be detected in remote brain regions with fiber tract connections to the lesion site as an indicator of poststroke neuroinflammation. However, the specificity of these imaging findings ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.21796
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a prospective clinical and electroencephalographic study of 19 patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and absence seizures. Absences began 1 to 9 (4.5 +/- 2.5) years before myoclonic jerks and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Clinical manifestations during the absence ictus showed great variation, rangi...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410250411
更新日期:1989-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Recent studies carried out on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients suggest that the disease might initiate in the motor cortex and spread to its targets along the corticofugal tracts. In this study, we aimed to test the corticofugal hypothesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis experimentally. METHODS:Sod1G8...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.25833
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mitochondria are cellular organelles crucial for energy supply and calcium homeostasis in neuronal cells, and their dysfunction causes seizure activity in some rare human epilepsies. To directly test whether mitochondrial respiratory chain enzymes are abnormal in the most common form of chronic epilepsy, temporal lobe...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although nerve conduction slowing is a well-accepted abnormality in rats with acute experimental diabetes, reports of neuropathological changes in diabetic rat nerves have been inconsistent. To examine this further, we studied electrophysiological and morphological features of posterior tibial nerves and their distal ...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410080207
更新日期:1980-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The prevalence of migraine is much greater in female than male individuals. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is thought to be a fundamental mechanism of migraine, and CSD in rodents is used as a model for migraine. We used optical intrinsic signal imaging and electrophysiological techniques to investigate CSD in C5...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.21138
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Compared to older Caucasians, older African Americans have higher risks of developing Alzheimer disease (AD) and lower cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau biomarker levels. It is not known whether tau-related differences begin earlier in life or whether race modifies other AD-related biomarkers such as inflammatory...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.25543
更新日期:2019-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410100602
更新日期:1981-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Faster time from onset to recanalization (OTR) in acute ischemic stroke using endovascular therapy (ET) has been associated with better outcome. However, previous studies were based on less-effective first-generation devices, and analyzed only dichotomized disability outcomes, which may underestimate the full...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1002/ana.24474
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Narcolepsy is caused by the loss of hypocretin/orexin neurons in the hypothalamus, which is likely the result of an autoimmune process. Recently, concern has been raised over reports of narcolepsy in northern Europe following H1N1 vaccination. METHODS:The study is a retrospective analysis of narcolepsy onset...
journal_title:Annals of neurology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.22587
更新日期:2011-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1002/ana.410340306
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00